Chapter 208

*Elora*

“Do you ever stop playing god, Valerius?”

Kael’s voice cut across the aethel-bulwark’s war room like a blade, sharp enough to silence even the whispering flames. The map of fractured leylines between us curled at the edges from the heat still radiating off my skin, and I could feel the pressure building behind my eyes. Again.

Valerius didn’t flinch. He simply turned his head, fingers still