Chapter 99

*Elora*

The Haven-Ruin didn’t sleep, not really. Even in the dead hours of night, its walls pulsed with a quiet life—runes humming low along the corridors, unseen guards shifting through the shadows, and beneath it all, the ever-present thrum of magic pooling like a current under stone.

I’d stopped expecting silence weeks ago. It wasn’t just the sound that kept me awake—it was the pressure. The we