Chapter 26 – The Oracle’s Return
The bells tolled across the spires of Velandria just after dawn, solemn and slow—neither celebratory nor funereal, but reverent, almost ancient. Eira stood at the eastern balcony of her chamber, her fingertips pressed lightly to the stone railing, staring toward the horizon where a storm brewed in the distance.
It wasn’t a real storm.
Not the kind that carried lightning and wind.
No—this was something else. A pressure in the air, thick and magical, that made her heart beat too fast and the fine hairs on her neck rise.
Mira’s words from the night before still echoed in her ears.
I’m not from this world either, Eira. You’re not alone.
For the first time since waking in Elyanora’s body, she had someone who understood. Someone who remembered Earth, techn
