The air around me grew heavy as Asmara’s incantation reached its peak. The world began to warp, the cave’s chill fading as time itself seemed to stretch and bend, pulling me backward, pulling me toward the moment where everything had gone wrong. I could feel the ground beneath me shift, my heart racing as I was hurtled through time, the world around me blurring into a haze of sounds and shapes.
Then, just as quickly as it had all started, the world solidified again. The cold, biting air of the cave was replaced with the haunting stillness of the moment. I was back—back on the night Ash had killed Levi, the very night everything had changed.
I stood there, frozen, as Ash’s cruel smile stretched across his face. Levi’s lifeless body lay at his feet, the blood pooling around him. I could st
