Chapter 12 The temple was silent now.Only the sound of Kael’s breath and the distant hiss of wind through the hollow corridors. The carvings on the wall had changed overnight — they weren’t just drawings anymore. They moved, faintly glowing with red embers like veins under old stone.Kael’s fingertips grazed one symbol. It was warm. Alive.A flash.The world shattered into light and sound — fire, screams, the smell of burning saltwater. He saw the island as it once was, centuries ago, thriving with people dressed in gold and ash. A civilization that prayed to the stars, to something ancient buried deep beneath the jungle.He wasn’t in the temple anymore. He stood in their memory.The air shimmered with heat as the great pyres were lit. The priests gathered around a black monolith, their chants overlapping like waves. And then he saw her — a woman cloaked in silver, her eyes glowing the same color as his when the Entity spoke through him.“You,” Kael whispered.The woman turned. Her