Chapter 16 - The Devourer of Stars
The smile should not have been possible.
An eye had no mouth.
No lips.
No face.
Yet somehow...
The crimson eye hanging beyond the shattered heavens smiled.
Not with joy.
With recognition.
The moment it did—
Every star in the Trial Realm went dark.
Silence.
Not ordinary silence.
The kind that swallowed sound itself.
Fin opened her mouth.
Nothing came out.
She looked toward Lyra.
The First Queen was frozen in place, her silver eyes fixed upon the crimson eye above them.
For the first time...
The legendary Starborn Queen looked afraid.
"...No."
Her whisper barely escaped her lips.
"It remembers us."
The crimson eye blinked.
Reality cracked.
Thousands of fractures spread across the sky like broken glass.
Beyond those cracks...
There
