Chapter 105

*Kaelen*

Magic doesn’t lie.

It shifts. It hides. It evolves. But it never lies. When the world forgets how to speak, magic keeps whispering.

And right now, it was whispering loud as hell.

Slo and I stood at the edge of the leyline break near the southern cliffs, where the mountain dipped into a basin of old stone and deeper roots. The land here had always been strange—too quiet, too alive, like th