Chapter 43 Ivory Solstice

KAELITH

It was here.

The Ivory Solstice.

The day I had dreaded from the moment Tessara first introduced the concept to me. The day when the fantasy of neutrality ended, and everyone had to make a decision—alight with a faction or be left to the mercy of chaos.

I hadn't left my dorm much the past week, slipping in and out of classes like a shadow, working shifts in near silence at the Aeternis-P