Chapter 20: The Shattering
The earth beneath Luna’s feet trembled violently, her body lurching forward as the fissure in the ground split open wider. The air was thick with a dangerous, swirling energy that whipped her hair around her face, stinging her skin. Alaric’s sinister laugh echoed through the clearing, reverberating in her very bones. The ground was no longer stable—everything felt as though it were slowly coming undone.
Luna’s instincts screamed at her to move, to escape, but her body refused to obey. The darkness radiating from Alaric was too overwhelming, suffocating her. The magic he wielded twisted the very fabric of reality, distorting everything around them. The once familiar landscape was now a nightmarish blur of shifting shadows and crackling energy. The moonlight tha
