The air inside the Shattered Passage zone felt different—neither the softness of frost nor the warmth of flame. It was a lifeless, uneasy kind of calm. Riya’s steps slowed, as if her heart could sense something. Feran’s ears drew slightly back—he had entered sensing mode.
Aarya was the first to step onto the fractured path. The ground beneath was like thin glass, each step echoing with a c***k—not in the surface, but deep within them.
“This zone… feels stuck in between,” Rudrak said as he walked forward. “Like the reflection of an incomplete thought.”
Riya picked up a glowing shard from the ground. Inside it, a small memory blinked—a girl… Riya herself—standing at the edge of a forest, wanting to say something but unable to.
“These fragments… aren’t just memories,” she said. “They’re p
