chapter 66
Chapter 66 – The Return to Ashridge Ashridge had always been a place of power—but never like this. As Seraphina, Lucien, Kael, and Draven emerged from the mountain’s shadow, the sky above them parted, light streaking through gray clouds. The forest around the foothills bowed with the wind, almost as if nature itself acknowledged what had occurred beneath the earth. The Seer was gone. The Soul Well was sealed. But the scars of war had only begun to show. --- Kael walked with a limp, his thigh bandaged with cloth torn from Draven’s coat. Lucien’s shirt was soaked in blood, but he refused to slow down. Draven moved silently, his shadows oddly calm—as though even the darkness had been momentarily satisfied. And Seraphina… She no longer felt like a girl trying to survive fate. She was
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