All Chapters of Shards of the Gods: Chapter 21
- Chapter 22
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Chapter 21: Sarnika's Echo "Pipit!"
Reksa screamed her name, but the rushing water swallowed the sound.He didn't hesitate. He threw himself into the crumbling sinkhole."Are you insane?" Sarnika shrieked in his head. "We are falling into a dead zone!""I'm not leaving her!"The dark consumed him. He fell, tumbling through jagged rock chutes, his frozen left arm slamming against stone. He didn't feel the pain. The numbness of the black frost was absolute, but the sheer panic in his chest burned like wildfire.*Thud.*He hit a steep slope of wet sand, sliding downward for what felt like miles before crashing into a shallow pool of stagnant water.He coughed, spitting out gritty sand and sulfur-tasting water."Pipit!" Reksa scrambled to his knees, his right hand flaring with a desperate, shaky golden light. "Pipit, where are you?""Stop shouting," Sarnika whispered. Her voice sounded different now. Hollower. Echoing. "She is close. But you need to look up."Reksa raised his glowing palm.The light illuminated a cavern of
Chapter 22: The Keeper's Legacy
The stone floor split with a sound like a dying god’s scream."Hold on!" Reksa roared. His voice was no longer his own, layered with the tectonic rumble of the void entity."I'm slipping!" Pipit screamed, her fingers clawing frantically at the edge of the tilting stone slab.He lunged. His left arm, now a mass of solid shadow and black frost, elongated. Tendrils of freezing darkness shot forward, wrapping around Pipit’s waist just as her platform crumbled into the white-hot violet abyss below."Got you," Reksa gritted, his teeth clenching as the weight nearly tore his shoulder from its socket. He hauled her upward, throwing her onto a shivering ledge of solid granite."And who has you, Closer?" Dharsa’s voice cut through the thundering dust.Dharsa stood on a floating platform of stone above them, his red crystal pulsing like a furious heartbeat. Beside him, the wooden-masked puppet of the Weaver levitated on a cloud of toxic purple mist."The Weaver's needle will sew this grave shut,