The ruins hummed beneath my feet.
I felt it before I saw it. A vibration in the earth that matched the rhythm of my heartbeat. The stones were singing to me. Calling me home.
"Aria?" Kairos's voice was sharp with concern. "You're glowing."
I looked down at my hands. Golden light pulsed beneath my skin, warm and alive. "I can feel it. The magic. It's everywhere here."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"I don't know yet."
The ruins stretched before us, massive and ancient. Pillars that reached toward the sky. Walls covered in carvings that seemed to move when I looked at them directly.
"These symbols," I breathed. "They're the same ones from my visions."
"Can you read them?"
"Some of them." I walked toward the nearest pillar, my fingers tracing the grooves. "They're talking abo
