chapter 71
Chapter 71 – The Whispering Flame The flames whispered secrets. At first, Seraphina thought she was imagining it. That the intense pressure from the last few days—battles, betrayals, blood—was finally cracking the calm she always wore like armor. But as she stood alone in the temple ruins, the embers from the sacred pyre flickering before her, she heard it again. “Not all fire burns to destroy.” It wasn’t a voice exactly. It was something deeper. Something older. Seraphina knelt, her fingers brushing the ash-laced stones of the High Temple. This place had once been the spiritual heart of the Phoenix Circle before the Council had defiled it—before they’d turned it into a chamber of torture and secrets. Now it was silent. Except for the whispers in the fire. As the flames danced high
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