Chapter 22
CHAPTER 22: THE AWAKENING BENEATH The silence inside the ancient sanctum was never truly silent. It breathed in slow, uneven pulses, as if the stone itself remembered things the living had long forgotten. Luna Hayes stood at the center platform with her hand hovering above the glowing silver markings, her black hair falling around her face as faint light reflected across her focused expression. The Moonfire within her no longer surged wildly, but it was far from calm. It was alert, responsive, and tightly coiled like a living force waiting for direction. Beneath her feet, something deeper answered the energy she released, something that did not belong to the surface world above. It answered with a slow, heavy rhythm, like a heartbeat buried under centuries of stone. Ryker Blackwood stoo
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