[Kael — The Missing Hour]
He came to the garden.
Alone. Blood on his hands. Black and gold. Not his.
He looked down at his reflection in the fountain basin.
It didn’t blink with him.
And worse
It smiled.
He stood fast.
The system whirred in warning, voice dull like muffled glass:
[Time Gap Detected: 58 Minutes Lost]
[Core Self Unresponsive – Partial Override Event Confirmed]
Kael whispered aloud:
“I wasn’t here.”
[Arin — Searching Through the Archives]
The dream hadn’t left her.
The name Aurethis still echoed in her bones.
And when she opened the old scrolls the ones even the royal family feared to preserve
She found him.
Not Kael.
But the same eyes.
A sketch of the First Sovereign.
Aurethis.
His arm wrapped in the Seraph Codex.
A throne built not from wood or metal
