Chapter 209

*Elora*

“Don’t fight it,” Valerius said, his voice low, even. “Just… let the leyline carry you.”

Easy for him to say. The spiral beneath me pulsed with a kind of energy I’d never felt before—tighter, older, almost brittle, like it was holding something back instead of letting something flow.

My knees pressed against the stone, cool and damp. The rest of the Aethel-Bulwark had gone quiet, Kaelen ha