Chapter 90

*Elora*

The morning—or what passed for it in this place—crept in without fanfare. There were no windows to mark the sun’s arrival, only a soft change in the torchlight that filtered through the cracks above, casting fractured gold over the cold stone floor. I hadn’t slept, not really. Between the biting pressure of the chains and the hollow ache left in the wake of my severed magic, my body had sh