Chapter 167

*Elora*

The tunnels beneath the Academy had always been sealed to students. Whispered about. Feared. Marked with ancient sigils none of us had ever dared touch. But now those sigils were cracked open—burned from within, not broken from outside. Whatever had once been meant to keep things in… had failed.

We moved in silence.

The air was thick, like something dead had tried to exhale and gotten stuc