The echo of Selene’s power hadn’t just shaken the earth.
It had shaken me.
I’d felt it the moment her gravity split the garden soil like paper. Something ancient and divine cracked open around her. And then—just as quickly—she vanished from our link.
Panic surged through me, tighter than the fist that gripped my chest. I didn’t hesitate. I ran.
Not through the gates. Not through the halls. There was no time for that.
Instead, I followed the path I’d memorized weeks ago from the castle blueprints in the forge archives—through the oldest tunnels that threaded beneath the estate like veins.
Inside the castle one’s more I was amazed, crystal lights that looked nothing like torches, the amazing creations in this castle left me wondering, imagining what else was this castle hiding.
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