Chapter 25
Lyra stood silently in the middle of the palace hallway, still trying to understand what she was seeing.
This was Hell?
This is the Hell I’ve been hearing about?
All her life, whenever she heard the word Hell, she imagined fire.
Endless fire.
Darkness.
Screaming souls.
Creatures crawling through flames.
A place where nothing beautiful could possibly exist.
But this…
This was nothing like what she had imagined.
As Lucien walked beside her, Lyra couldn’t stop looking around.
The palace itself was enormous, with towering black walls decorated with gold details that seemed to shimmer beneath the soft glow of magical lights.
Beyond the palace windows, she could see an entire kingdom.
Cities stretched across the horizon.
Huge buildings rose from the ground, some made
