Chapter 128

*Kaelen*

Waking up inside someone else’s mind was nothing like I expected.

There was no gentle easing into awareness, no sudden flash of memory or light. It felt like falling through water that never wanted to let you surface. Slow. Cold. Weighted. When I finally blinked into consciousness, my body didn’t respond the way it should have. It wasn’t pain I felt—it was absence. Like I’d been hollowed