CHAPTER 80 — The Devourer’s Last Sin
THIRD POV
The dead zone had never been quiet.
Its air was always trembling with whispers, old bones humming beneath cracked earth, the distant moan of realms slowly dissolving into ash. But now—after Gabriella’s transformation, after her fourfold bond lit the sky—
the silence felt wrong.
Too still.
Too cold.
Like the realm was holding its breath.
Gabriella felt all of them freeze at once.
Tristan’s hand tightened around her arm.
Leo’s ears flicked back, instincts screaming.
Mark stepped half a pace in front of her, as if his body alone could shield her from whatever was coming.
And behind them Rhael… Rhael was staring into the sky like he could hear something no one else could.
Something hungry.
A deep vibration shuddered through the air,
