There was no sound after the light.
Not silence.
Not peace.
Something stranger.
As if existence itself had been reset and forgot how to breathe.
Luna opened her eyes slowly.
At first, there was nothing.
No battlefield.
No sky.
No fortress.
No war.
Just white.
Endless, floating white space stretching infinitely in every direction like a world waiting to be written again.
Then pain returned.
Not physical pain.
Emotional weight.
Memory.
She gasped sharply and stumbled backward.
Her feet touched something solid.
Cold stone.
But when she looked down
It was not stone.
It was a mirror-like surface reflecting nothing but her silhouette.
Alone.
“…Kael?”
Her voice cracked immediately.
The sound felt wrong here.
Muted.
Distant.
Like the world didn’t want to answer.
She t
