Chapter 102

*Kaelen*

The leyline wasn’t visible to the human eye—but I could feel it pulsing beneath the forest floor like a buried artery, a steady rhythm that thrummed against the soles of my boots and clawed through the soles of my feet. It hummed louder the deeper I walked, tugging like it had teeth and purpose. Like it knew where it wanted to take me.

I hadn’t felt her magic in weeks.

Not properly. Not c