Chapter 186

*Elora*

The heat didn’t fade. It rolled through me in waves, thick and electric, until my breath came ragged and my skin felt too small to hold what was happening beneath it. The violet glow shimmered beneath my abdomen, each pulse syncing with something deeper—the leyline under the cavern floor. It wasn’t just me anymore. The ground, the air, the magic in this place… it all beat with the same rhy