Chapter 273

Elodie's POV

The power conduit felt like a living thing beneath my palms—a jagged, electrical pulse that wanted to shred my skin.

It wasn’t the warm, grounded hum of the Boreal Slope. This was sharp. This was artificial. It was the sound of a thousand stolen dreams being forced through a copper wire.

120 bpm. My heart was hitting a frantic rhythm, but for the first time since they dragged me int