The moon hung heavy in the sky, a pale lantern casting shadows that flickered like whispers. The cold stone of the prison walls pressed in on Sienna as she made her way down the long corridor of the Citadel’s lower dungeons. Each step echoed in the silence, a reminder of the gravity of her mission tonight. She wasn’t here to make a decision, it had already been made. She was here to face the man who had once been her greatest love, the one who now lay broken under the weight of a curse that threatened to tear him apart.
Sienna paused before the iron-barred door, her fingers brushing against the cold metal. She could feel him on the other side, his presence an invisible force pressing against her. His power had always been overwhelming, but now... now it was something else entirely. Darker
