Chapter Twenty-One
The mountain was dying.
Cracks raced across the cavern walls like lightning tearing through stone. Dust poured from the ceiling in thick clouds as the entire chamber trembled violently.
Varakoth stood at the center of the destruction.
The creature’s massive wings stretched outward, pushing against the cavern walls as if the mountain itself were nothing more than a cage it had grown tired of wearing.
Lyra grabbed my arm as another tremor rattled the ground beneath us.
“Kael, the ceiling is collapsing.”
“I noticed.”
Chunks of stone the size of wagons began breaking loose above us. One crashed into the chamber floor with a thunderous impact that sent shockwaves rippling through the cavern.
Across the chamber Selunara rose slowly from the rubble where Varakoth had t
