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Chapter 91
The tunnel pulsed, breathing in the dark—low thuds rolling through the molded stone, every heartbeat of the underground veins vibrating faintly beneath their boots. The air was thick with faint smoke, iron, and something damp that reeked like rusted chains.Kaelen stood dead still, jaw locked, eyes hard, and posture steady—a man who didn’t blink unless he meant it. Across from him, she tilted her head, a sharp angle that carved her silhouette in the dim, burning eyes cutting through the gloom. “Wait…” she muttered, pausing. Then a sharp and deliberate scoff tore from her throat. Her head cocked, lips curling as she gave him a look of dripping venom and insult. “Did you just ask me to be quiet?”Kaelen’s expression didn’t flinch, didn’t crack. His voice came low, even, and edged. “What did it sound like to you?”That landed like a slap. She scoffed harder, this time a jagged laugh pushing out with it—not the funny kind, the dangerous kind. Her nostrils flared, her chin tilted high,
Chapter 90
Something’s coming." Sahrak’s sharp and urgent voice sliced through the low hum of the tunnel. He shifted his weight, sliding one foot back and lowering into a defensive stance. The ground beneath them trembled, first a faint quiver in the soles of their boots, then a full-bodied vibration that rattled dust from the tunnel’s sculpted ceiling.Kaelen, by contrast, stood loose, extending both hands in the air like he might catch a joke falling from nowhere. He squinted at the darkness ahead, then glanced behind them. Nothing. Just endless, pulsing sand veins that beat like some buried creature’s arteries, glowing orange through the thin shell of compacted earth.The rumble became a roar. Heat pressed against their faces, not their own blue fire’s steady warmth but something wild, something hunting. Then—light. A slash of red cut the darkness opposite them, racing forward like a comet dragged through hell. The sound was wrong: not rock breaking, not fire roaring, but both, layered to
Chapter 89
“You are…” Kaelen paused mid-step, leaning forward slightly, narrowing his eyes. The blue glow still swam over the old man’s skin, pulsing faintly like a second heartbeat. “...doing okay… right?” he asked, tugging a crooked grin nervously at the corner of his mouth.Sahrak’s lips curled — not a grimace, not quite a smile — something stranger, unsettling, like a dam about to crack under pressure. “I definitely am,” he said, nodding once, curt and deliberate.Kaelen’s grin flattened into suspicion. His head tilted slightly, shoulders squaring. “So why,” he said slowly, “is there a ‘I’m about to go mad with power’ look on your face?” His voice tightened, as though the words themselves might try to bite him. His eyes flicked to Sahrak’s mouth. “And what’s with that very weird smile? I’ve literally never seen you smile in my life,” he added, edging his tone with the kind of humor that comes from fear trying to act casual.“For once, lad…” Sahrak breathed in deep, sharp, the sound cutting
Chapter 88
For a moment, it felt like the world had forgotten how to move. Kaelen sat in the choking dark, fire licking weakly around his whole self, and watched the old man slipping away. Sahrak’s skin, once weathered bronze, was now the color of paper left out in the rain too long—thin, gray, drained of everything that made it human. His lips had gone slack, with the blue edges creeping inward. His chest barely moved, and for one stomach-turning second, Kaelen thought it had stopped altogether.“Mahn…” Kaelen muttered under his breath, clenching his jaw so tight it trembled. His gut sank with the kind of fear he didn’t have the luxury to admit out loud.He dragged a sharp and steady breath in through his teeth, and crouched down beside the old man, scraping his boots softly against the brittle sand-caked floor. He leaned in close, studying Sahrak’s still face like it might suddenly twitch, like the old man was playing some cruel joke. But there was nothing—just that hollow quiet and the opp
Chapter 87
“I can’t spray fire downwards,” Kaelen muttered through clenched teeth, the wind clawing words right out of his mouth. “And spraying fire onto the sides — might crumble down the whole thing on top of us.” He paused, jaw tight, narrowing his eyes into the thick, endless dark. “So there’s only one thing left…”His hands snapped alight — first a flicker, then a steady, roaring bloom. Flames wrapped his fists and licked at his boots, casting away only a sliver of that devouring black. The darkness pushed right back, swallowing the edges of the fire.Kaelen glanced down, craned left, then right — nothing. Just the hiss of the air screaming past his ears and the weightless crush of gravity dragging at his gut. No Sahrak and no sight of the bottom.“Oh, mahn…” he breathed, darting his eyes side to side.He threw both arms in front of himself, fired off small, controlled bursts from his palms — pop-pop-pop — not strong enough to kill his speed, just enough to tilt his angle, flip his body in
Chapter 86
The air over the pit was colder than it should’ve been. It crawled, like it was alive. Like it was tasting whoever dared to lean close.“Fine,” Kaelen muttered, pushing up to his feet, brushing the dirt off his palms. The set of his jaw said more than the words did — he was already gone in his head, already diving into that void before his body had even moved. “But I should go first. If not… the old man and I could jump in first.”His voice was calm, but a sharp undertone made even the soldiers hanging back shift on their feet.Sahrak gave a firm nod, curling his lips into something that wasn’t quite a smile.Kaelen exhaled through his nose, sharp and quick, then raised a finger. “I’ll send up a bolt of fire when we can tell it’s safe to jump in,” he said, using a crisp and measured tone. His eyes flicked between Sahrak and Rokhen, like he was burning the plan into their heads. “I’ll send two bolts if we feel it’s… slightly dangerous.” He paused, raised two fingers, resting them und
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