Chapter 10 – Selis Awakens (Foreshadowed)
The flicker of candlelight trembled against the stone walls of the Valenhart estate, casting long shadows across the floor of Elyanora’s chambers. Eira lay curled atop the chaise, her arms wrapped tightly around a velvet cushion, though the chill in her bones had little to do with the temperature of the room.
She hadn’t slept well in days.
Not since she read the final page of the tome hidden beneath the floorboard in the library—the one that spoke of soul displacement, broken pacts, and divine interference. Not since she felt something... someone stir inside her. A presence that was not her own.
Tonight, she’d dreamed of fire. Not metaphorical flames, but real ones—ravenous and alive, crackling through a chapel she had never seen before. She sa
