Chapter 151

Harper

Darkness swallowed me whole.

No sound.

No ground.

No air.

Just a cold, endless void pressing against my skin like water.

I didn’t know if I was standing, falling, or suspended in nothing at all. My heartbeat echoed in my skull, too loud. Too fast.

Then something shifted.

A faint glow rippled through the dark—pale, silver, flickering like moonlight reflected in water. It pulsed once. Twice.