CAGE OF SHADOWS
Wind roars in Nara’s ears—cold, sharp, carrying whispers she cannot understand.
They pull at her hair, her skin, her bones, like invisible hands dragging her through the dark.
Then—
Silence.
She falls onto something solid. Hard. Cold.
For a moment she can’t breathe.
Her fingers dig into a stone floor as she forces her eyes open. Darkness drapes the space like a living thing, curling around pillars of black stone. Symbols glow faintly along the walls—ancient runes, swirling in slow, eerie pulses.
A chamber.
No…
A throne room.
And she is lying at the center of it.
Her heart thunders, panic rising like choking smoke.
Where is Kael?
Where is her pack?
Where is—
“You will not be harmed.”
The voice comes from behind her, too calm, too patient.
She flinches an
