[Status Update: Active Pursuit Disabled] [Nemesis Unit: Marrow – System Corruption: 0.07%] [Sealbreaker’s Command: Active. Stability Index: 53%]
They had been underground for hours.
The caverns were damp, the walls slick with condensation that shimmered strangely under Yanyu’s conjured flame. Zayn sat with his back against a stone wall, pulse still erratic from their escape.
His hand throbbed. The violet mark had shifted again. New lines of script had appeared—some glowing faintly, others too deep to decipher. He didn’t understand all of it yet. But one thing was clear:
He had survived something no one was supposed to walk away from.
"You're changing," Yanyu said, kneeling beside him.
He gave her a wary look. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”
"It is,” she replied quietly. “That
