Chapter 211

*Elora*

The room was too quiet.

I knew the sound of battle. The clash of claws and steel. The way wards shattered like glass under dark magic. But this silence wasn’t that. It wasn’t the stillness before impact. It wasn’t even the aching hush that followed pain.

It was the kind of silence that curled around your lungs and squeezed.

The kind that made you think something was missing.

Something vita