I felt entirely spent but renewed. As the powers drained from me, the heaviness lifted, and now, as I lay there depleted, the rush of magic settled around the place, warming me from within. I lay down on the cool stone and let it wash over me.
It was a sense of calm I could not remember feeling.
After a while, Nova spoke, “It was said our lands were connected between the pools.” She was speaking to me as much as she was speaking life into the caverns.
I glanced at her to see she was lying near me, staring at the ceiling where the muted blue lights danced across, making waves in their wake.
I looked around the walls—my eyes paused on a bit of mortar that seemed different, a cracked brick, a stone slightly off in color—but nothing stood out to indicate that this place held a closed entra
