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crimson voice
Chapter 32: The Crimson VoiceThe medical wing smelled like burned flesh and healing salves. Elior sat on a cot while a nurse wrapped bandages around his hands, her face carefully neutral. Across the room, Olivia was getting his own burns treated, wincing every time the healer applied the green paste to his blistered palms.Liora stood by the window, watching the courtyard where her father lay in a sealed healing chamber. The man hadn't woken up yet, but his vital signs were stable. That was something.Desmond entered, his expression grim. He closed the door behind him and cast a privacy ward with a flick of his wrist. The air shimmered, sealing them off from any eavesdroppers."We need to talk," Desmond said. "Now."Elior looked up. "What happened?""Keal is gone. Vanished from his office, his chambers, everywhere. But before he left, he took something from the archives. A text we thought was safely locked away.""What text?" Olivia asked, standing despite the healer's protests.Desm
the mirror price
Chapter 31: The Mirror's PriceThe Flame Mirror pulsed with an unnatural light, casting shifting shadows across the ruined courtyard. Elior stood five feet from it, close enough to feel the heat radiating from the creature that had once been Liora's father. The thing's massive frame shuddered with each labored breath, flames licking from the cracks in its charred skin."Son?" the creature rasped again, the word distorted by a throat that was more furnace than flesh.Elior's stomach twisted. The monster wasn't looking at him with hunger or rage. It was looking at him with recognition. With something that might have been hope.Desmond raised his hand, fingers glowing with protective wards. "Elior, step back slowly. Don't let it touch you."But Elior couldn't move. The fire inside him was singing, resonating with the creature's presence like two halves of a broken whole. His mark burned hotter, the tattoos crawling up his arm beginning to glow."It knows me," Elior said quietly. "Not as
monster
Chapter 28: The Monster Wears His FaceI. The Ash Storm RisesA darkness pressed over the academy—dense, suffocating, unnatural. For hours, oily clouds had churned above the towers, circling in impossible shapes and swallowing the last vestiges of sunset. Bitter wind lashed the shuttered windows, carrying the taste of scorched ash and distant terror. Panic coursed through the halls: students whispering in their locked dorms, teachers clinging to dwindling authority, and everywhere, the chilling rumor—something had escaped.Elior drifted on the edge of consciousness, pain pulsing at his temples. The world around him blurred: Olivia hunched beside his bed, bandaging a wound with shaking hands, blood soaking through his own shirt. The bronze glimmer of Desmond’s protective wards shimmered around the chamber’s doorway, faintly humming, keeping out more than just the wind.Elior saw nothing but Olivia’s face—pale, eyes ringed with exhaustion and stubborn hope. “Stay with me,” Olivia whispe
thorn and flames
Chapter 26: Thorns and FlamesPART I: Liora Begins to BreakThe dim light from the ancient crystal flickered softly in the corner of Liora’s chamber, its shimmer casting fractured shadows against the cold stone walls. She sat alone, fingertips trembling as they traced the smooth surface, watching Elior through the visions it revealed. His figure was distant but vivid—walking the academy grounds with the burden of his blazing powers visible in every tense step.Her breath hitched, chest tightening with guilt. The weight of all she had done pressed on her like a crushing tide. Memories surged—a flash of Elior’s trusting eyes when he confided in her, a soft smile that now felt like a wound tearing open. The fragile warmth of friendship, the sincerity she had betrayed.Her mind shattered further as her father’s face flickered before her—stoic, worn, but unmistakably alive. The image closed tight around her heart like a vice.Her hand hovered over the threshold spell resting on the intrica
fire unleashed
Chapter: The Fire Unleashed Elior’s footsteps echoed hollowly through the deserted garden courtyard, each step weighed down by a storm raging within. The rain whispered cold, relentless secrets through the skeletal branches above, drumming steadily on the stone paths slick with slick puddles reflecting the muted gray skies. The air, heavy and thick with the scent of scorched earth and something far darker, clung to him like a second skin, a burning tension coiling tighter beneath his ribs. His head throbbed fiercely, a warzone where his own battered thoughts skirmished endlessly with the ancient fire’s insidious voice.The two wrestled inside him—his reason pleading for mercy, for control, for sanity, but the demon’s voice, raw with hunger and fury, screamed louder.Then from the shadows stepped Liora—pale as a ghost and almost trembling, though her eyes burned with a steely resolve. She was framed against the rain-drenched darkness, a fragile figure burdened by secrets and remorse.
shadows at the door
Chapter 25: Shadows at the DoorI. In Keal’s Office: The Trap TightensThe lamp glow in Keal’s office threw hard shadows on the stone walls, sharpening every cruel angle of his grin. He paced behind his massive desk, hands folded, shooting sidelong glances at Liora. The room itself seemed to pulse with anticipation—dark, grave, every surface and silence charged with a threat only Keal could relish.He leaned in close to Liora, his smirk widening. “A little more, my dear. Just a touch more and Elior won't be able to contain what’s inside him. Do you see it? The fire, the shadows—they’re clawing their way out. You’re pushing perfectly.” His voice was velvet over knives—smooth, but every word drew blood.Liora didn’t answer, couldn’t trust herself to speak. Her hands tightened at her sides, nails half-moons in her palms, stomach sick with guilt. She wished she could find anger, blame, anything besides this ache that crushed her with every one of his compliments.Keal’s voice was intoxica
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