Chapter 278

Kiernan’s POV

The silence it attacked me.

The second I crossed the threshold into the Veins, the world was cut away with the precision of a guillotine.

The screaming wind, the smell of the pack, the distant roar of the Sovereign engines—gone. It was replaced by a stillness so absolute that it felt like a physical pressure against my eardrums. I stumbled forward, my boots hitting the violet-lit st