Chapter 34: Beyond the Shattered Veil
The world was gone.
For a long, terrible moment, Luna floated in nothingness.
No pain.
No sound.
No light.
Just an endless, suffocating void.
Her body felt weightless, like ash scattered on the wind. Her memories flickered and twisted, slipping through her fingers like water.
Was this death?
Had she failed?
A distant sound broke the silence—a whisper, growing louder.
A voice.
Calling her back.
She gasped—and slammed into her body like a thunderbolt.
Luna jolted awake.
She lay sprawled on cold stone, staring up at an alien sky.
The heavens here were wrong—bleeding colors she didn’t have names for, shifting constantly, never still. Two suns hung low, one black, one crimson, locked in an endless spiral.
The air was thick, heavy with magic
