Chapter 205

*Elora*

They arrived at dusk.

The kind of dusk where the air feels thick with something unsaid—when the wind carries more than leaves, and the horizon glows just a shade too red. The guards hadn’t raised alarm, hadn’t sensed a threat, which meant whoever approached had known how to walk through magical barriers like they’d been built for him.

I was in the atrium with Valerius and Slo when the door