Final chapter
FINAL CHAPTER — Choice One year after the war, Aurelia returns alone to the battlefield clearing. The trees are growing again. Grass covers the scars. But the memory remains. Malachai finds her there. “You’re thinking too loudly,” he says softly. She smiles faintly. “I can feel heaven testing the veil again.” “And?” She inhales. “They won’t cross it.” “Why?” Her eyes glow faintly in the fading sun. “Because they know I will.” Not with rage. Not with vengeance. But with balance. He steps closer. The bond between them pulses — steady now. Controlled. Eternal. “You’re no longer becoming something,” he says. “You already are.” She considers that. “I am not a weapon.” “No.” “You are the line they cannot step over.” The wind moves gently through the clearing. For the f
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