The sky above the fractured tier split wider.
Stone cracked like dry bone as the monstrous shape forced itself through the Veil’s wound.
Massive claws gripped the edges of the breach, each talon longer than a sword, carved from something darker than shadow.
Mist poured down its limbs like falling ash.
The creature was enormous.
Not merely large like the Veilborn, it was colossal, its head alone nearly the size of the broken platform where they stood.
Slowly, painfully, it pulled itself forward.
The Veil screamed.
The sound was not heard with ears but felt through the bones, a deep trembling vibration that rippled across the fractured tier and through the air itself.
Ryn staggered backward.
“That thing… shouldn’t be able to cross over,” he whispered.
The Veilborn growled deeply b
