Chapter 104

*Elora*

The sky had bled dry by the time Kezar summoned me. Twilight swallowed the haven-ruin in long shadows and molten edges, and the flames that never truly went out in the stone corridors seemed to burn brighter—as if they knew something I didn’t.

As if they were preparing to witness a coronation.

I walked alone. No escorts. No guards. Just the sound of my own breathing and the low, pulsing hu