Chapter 130

*Elora*

My younger self disappeared after she spoke those words.

You can still choose.

She didn’t fade. She stepped backward into the dark, into the stillness beyond the fractured room of memories, as if her part was done and now the rest was mine. Her presence left something behind though—clarity. A direction, however faint.

The ground beneath me steadied.

The air shifted.

And I felt it.

Not fire