Chapter 198

*Elora*

The wind had changed.

I noticed it before anyone else—the shift in the current, the way the trees held their breath. Something about the air felt tense, like the land itself was bracing. Not for a storm. Not for magic. For something colder. More final.

Like war.

I stood at the edge of the canyon as morning bled across the sky, the mountains still dressed in mist. The leyline below pulsed f