All Chapters of ECHOES OF THE FORGOTTEN ISLE : Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
12 chapters
THE AWAKENING
Chapter 11 The storm had changed.It wasn’t just wind and rain anymore.It screamed.The entire island pulsed with a rhythm — thunder timed with Kael’s heartbeat. The jungle trees bent inward, their roots curling above the soil like skeletal fingers reaching toward the sky.Elara trudged through the mud, soaked and shaking, one arm under Kael’s shoulder as he stumbled beside her. His skin was burning hot, faint light pulsing beneath it.“Kael, talk to me,” she shouted over the roaring wind.He didn’t answer. His eyes glowed faintly — not human, not alive, but something in between. The mark on his arm crawled upward, etching new lines along his neck like living veins of light.Every flash of lightning illuminated the same impossible image: the jungle moving.Leaves unfurling to reveal eyes.Vines twisting into arms.The island was awake.They found temporary shelter in a collapsed cave near the ridge. Elara helped him inside, pressing him against the cold wall. His breathing was uneven
MEMORY OF FIRE
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