Aurelia couldn’t breathe.
Not because the Voidborne was choking her
but because something inside her was waking.
Dark, shifting energy crackled beneath her skin like a second heartbeat. Shadows crawled across her arms, sinking into her veins, twisting through her bones as though claiming territory.
Kane staggered to his feet below her, chest heaving.
“Aurelia… Ria… LOOK AT ME!”
But she couldn’t.
Her eyes burned violet-black swallowing the gold, swallowing the whites, swallowing the girl she had always been.
Her body jerked violently suspended midair by the Voidborne’s tendrils but the creature was no longer attacking her.
I watched it.
Observing.
Waiting.
Like she was the final step of a ritual it had chased across realms.
Aurelia screamed, clutching her head as visions slam
