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CHAPTER 14 — “THE COST OF AWAKENING”
The air still crackled around Elias, shimmering with pale resonance. The glow beneath his skin slowly faded, settling into a faint pulse like distant lightning trapped in bone.Seren stared, trembling. “Elias… your eyes…”He blinked. They dimmed slightly returning from glowing bone-white to their normal amber, though a faint ring of pale light lingered around the iris. “I’m okay,” Elias murmured.“That didn’t look okay,” Seren whispered.Caedia pushed herself up from the stone, dust clinging to her cloak. She moved carefully toward Elias, her blind eyes glowing faintly.“Describe what you feel,” Caedia said.Elias exhaled slowly. “Everything.”Seren frowned. “Everything?”“I can feel the tunnels,” Elias said quietly. “The walls. The bones inside them. Every echo. Every vibration.”Seren’s breath caught. “Is that… dangerous?”“For someone untrained?” Caedia answered. “Very.”Elias gritted his teeth. “It’s like the world won’t stop humming.”Caedia nodded solemnly. “Your Echo has awaken
CHAPTER 13 — “THE SHADOW OF THE BETRAYER”
The Chamber darkened. Runes flickered out one by one, swallowed by a creeping darkness that slithered across the bone walls like living ink. Elias stiffened, heart pounding as cold air pressed against his skin.A whisper rippled behind him. Echo… Elias turned sharply. “Who’s there?”Silence. Then another whisper closer. The third truth… Elias’s breath caught. The Chamber of Echoes trembled underfoot, dust sifting from the curved bone ceiling. “Come out!” he shouted.The darkness pulsed. A shadow peeled itself from the wall tall, broad-shouldered, and familiar. Too familiar. Elias’s heart crashed against his ribs. “No… it can’t be.”The shadow stepped forward, forming a silhouette he had seen a thousand times. Kelren. But not the echo.Not the gentle memory.This version was twisted flesh dripping into shadow, eyes empty, face distorted by something darker than death. Elias stumbled back. “Father?”The shadow-Kelren tilted its head, voice a hollow rasp. “You think betrayal lives only i
CHAPTER 12 — “THE BLOOD THAT BINDS”
Elias’s breath came in shallow gasps as the Chamber shifted around him. The polished bone walls blurred, runes flickering like dying stars.His father’s echo had vanished but its weight lingered, pressing on his chest. He whispered into the empty room, “Forgive her…?”Lyra’s image still burned in his mind face streaked with rain, eyes full of desperate fear, bartering his life for her family’s freedom.Elias clenched his fists. “I don’t know if I can.”The chamber pulsed. Second truth awaits… Echo… Elias stiffened. “Truth of blood?” The floor beneath him dissolved.He blinked and found himself standing in a narrow alley of the capital. Rain drummed against stone rooftops, puddles reflecting dim lantern light.Elias frowned. “Why am I… here?”Footsteps echoed from behind. Elias turned. A younger version of himself maybe nine years old ran through the alley, barefoot and soaked, clutching a torn satchel. Fear radiated from the boy like heat.Elias whispered, horrified, “This was… the ni
CHAPTER 11 — “THE CHAMBER THAT LISTENS”
The tunnel deepened, swallowing Caedia, Elias, and Seren in a silence so dense it pressed on the skin like cold fingers. Only the soft glow of embedded runes lit their path pulsing dimly in rhythm with Elias’s own resonance.Seren walked close enough that her shoulder brushed Elias’s arm every few steps. “Elias… are you sure about this?”“No,” Elias admitted quietly. “But we have no choice.”Caedia spoke from ahead, her pace smooth and deliberate despite her blindness. “You fear the Chamber. That is good.”Elias frowned. “Why is it good?”Caedia did not slow. “Fear keeps the Echo from consuming you.”Seren muttered, “Great. So we’re walking toward something designed to terrify him.”Caedia smiled faintly. “It is not designed to terrify. It is designed to reveal.”Elias’s stomach tightened. He wasn’t sure which was worse.They walked until the tunnel widened into a circular antechamber. The walls curved in a perfect ring, etched with spirals of bone-runes that glowed a muted blue.Sere
CHAPTER 10— “THE BONE-SEER’S PROPHECY”
Elias didn’t lower the dagger. Princess Caedia stood perfectly still at the threshold of the Bonekeeper archive, her wet hair clinging to her pale cheeks, her clouded eyes glowing dimly in the bone-light.Seren pressed herself closer to Elias. “Why… why is she here?”Caedia tilted her head slightly, sensing Seren’s fear. “Child, I mean you no harm.”Elias stepped forward, blocking her view. “State your purpose.”A small smile tugged at the corner of Caedia’s lips. “Direct. Good.”“I’m not joking,” Elias said, voice tight. “You followed us down here. Why?”Caedia inhaled deeply, her blind eyes drifting toward the glowing runes on the wall. “Because the bones called me. They haven’t been this loud since the Bonekeepers vanished.”Elias’s grip tightened. “You said the bones scream my name.”“Yes,” Caedia replied softly. “Over and over.”Seren swallowed. “Why would they do that?”Caedia stepped closer slowly, carefully. “Because he awakened something that was meant to stay buried.”Elias
CHAPTER 9 — “THE BONES THAT REMEMBER”
The tunnel narrowed as Elias and Seren moved deeper, the glow of ancient runes pulsing faintly beneath their steps. The air was cooler here, cleaner, almost… expectant.Seren held Elias’s hand tightly. “Do you think Ravel will come back?”“He will,” Elias answered. “But not immediately.”“How do you know?”Elias exhaled. “Because he’s afraid.”Seren blinked. “Afraid of you?”“He should be.”Seren quieted at the tone in his voice, firm, steady, unfamiliar even to Elias himself. They walked until the tunnel opened into a smaller chamber lined with shelves carved from bone.Fractured tablets, hollowed femurs filled with parchment, and marrow-crystals dimmed by age lay scattered as if abandoned in a hurry. Seren gasped softly. “What is this place?”Elias stilled. “An archive.”Her eyes widened. “Like… a library?”“A Bonekeeper memory chamber,” Elias said, stepping inside. “Their histories, spells, rituals… everything they protected.”Seren touched a dusty shelf. “Why did they leave all th
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