Chapter 288

Elodie’s POV

The silence that followed the first resonance discharge was not the peaceful quiet of the forest; it was the ringing, metallic silence of an empty shell.

As the Sovereign pylon hissed and retreated into the scorched earth of the Neutral Zone, the sudden absence of the mountain’s hum in my body felt like a physical weight.

52 bpm.

I was leaning heavily against Kiernan, my legs feeling