♠ SYLVARA ♠
It happened in a blink—one misstep, and the world shattered into porcelain and pain. My feet slipped on the slick bathroom tile, and gravity showed no mercy.
The sound wasn’t loud, but it was final. Like something sacred inside me had cracked. What was that? I asked myself inwardly, trying to let the situation set in.
For a moment, I couldn’t move. My body screamed in silence, paralyzed between shock and instinct. The chill of the floor seeped through my skin, colliding with the fire blooming at the base of my spine.
The pain wasn’t sharp—it was deep. It coiled around my spine like smoke, slow and sinister. Not a shatter, they’d later say. Just a fracture. Minor.
I tried to stand, but my body betrayed me, sending me back to the cold tile. “Ahhh!” I screamed in pain.
“Scar
