Darkness clamped down like a vice, suffocating, endless.
Selena fought against it, but the abyss had no mercy. It swallowed her whole, dragging her into its depths. She wasn’t falling—she was unraveling, her very essence being pulled apart thread by thread. Voices whispered in the void, their words clawing at the edges of her consciousness.
Selena, wake up.
Lyanna’s voice. Urgent. Desperate.
But another voice slithered through the darkness, colder, more insidious.
You already know the truth. Stop running from it.
Veyron.
A hand seized her wrist. Burning. Grounding.
Damian.
Light erupted around her, shattering the shadows. The suffocating void ripped apart, and suddenly—
She was standing.
The ruins of Eldoria stretched before her, but the world had changed. The sky churned with u
