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The Silent Dominion
The palace of obsidian breathed like a living thing , slow, immense, and cruel. Shadows pulsed along the walls in rhythm with a heart that did not belong to any mortal or god. From the deepest chamber, where the floor itself was carved from the bones of forgotten kings, Malakai sat upon his throne of dusk and flame.He did not blink.He did not need to.The air trembled beneath his presence thick with the residue of fear and the perfume of death. All around him, silence coiled like smoke. Only the faint echo of whispers danced through the hall, not voices of servants or spirits, but the mutterings of reality bending to his will.And then a flicker.Something broke the stillness.A sound not of this world: a scream echoing through the tether of souls.Malakai’s crimson eyes flicked open. The scream was distant yet too near. It was the sound of a mind fracturing, a spirit tearing at its own reflection. His lips curved into the faintest smile.“Ah,” he murmured, the word vibratin
A Thousand Voices of Me
Darkness was not absent. It was weight , breathing, whispering, alive.Marco sitting down on a bench on top of the mountain drifted within it, the remnants of his mind caught in the current like ash in still water. He didn’t remember when he had stopped falling; he only knew that every direction led inward.The first voice came softly, like a ripple across glass.“You thought of yourself as chosen.”Ruby’s tone or something that wore her tone , bent around him. Her voice had always been hot; now it was ice that bit.“The mighty warrior , The protector. But look at you now. “ You can’t even think without drifting to this world, this world of imagination, this world of fog , you can't move without shaking.”“ Pathetic” . She spitted out .He tried to speak, but his words were swallowed. The void pulsed, slow and steady, like a heart that refused to die.“Ruby,” he managed.“No,” she answered, and the sound multiplied , her face peeling away from shadow into hundreds of faces,
The Ember’s call
The mountain was silent again.Wind whispered through the high passes, stirring the ash of old prayers. The Ancient One stood upon the ledge where Marco had once vanished through the portal, his robes whispering like dying leaves.For the first time in centuries, he looked happy .“ I remember when I went inside there , hoping to return, nothing knowing I would be tortured , kidnapped, " Marco murmured . his voice frayed with worry. “weeks have passed and I am finally here .”Behind him, stood in quiet defiance of her fear. Sophia sighed in relief as she blurted out “ I was really scared for you , I thought you were never going to return , I feared Malakai had done something worse to you “."Something worse than death ,” he whispered. "He actually did , he tormented my mind , he played with my fear , he tried to break me .”The Ancient One turned, eyes like polished obsidian.“Marco Valenti it wasn't an easy task , being in the void for weeks and you are not broken , you are
Ash and Ascension
Marco walked up to the mountain , wounded , hurt .The first thing Marco felt was heat.Not the warmth of sunlight or the kiss of a hearth, but a suffocating blaze that seemed to exist beneath his skin. He woke in darkness yet light trembled from within him, veins glowing faintly gold before dimming again, like a dying star gasping for air.Sophia saw Marco and ran to him .Surprised, she said “ how are you here , how did you get out Malakai void “ he whispered hoarsely. “ I don't know, all I know is I woke up a few meters from the mountain and walked here, I Don't know, how I got out “ Sophia assisted him to a chair, He sat up slowly. The walls around him were not stone but ash compacted layers of burned memories. Every movement disturbed a thousand whispers. Faces formed and dissolved in the gray mist, some familiar, some monstrous.Then came the voice , faint, like breath through cracked glass.“You wear my fire well, for a man of dust.”Marco froze. The voice belon
The Shadow that spoke
The wind over the mountain carried whispers now.Not the kind born of breeze or leaves, but low murmurs that bled from the cracks in the air , sounds too deliberate, too patient.The Ancient One stood at the edge of the obsidian cliffs, his robes stirring like dark water. His sightless eyes turned toward the horizon, though what he saw was far beyond it.“ I hope everything is going well with Aria and Liora,”he murmured, voice lined with centuries.Sophia sat nearby, her hands clasped tight around a crystal sphere that pulsed faintly blue , Marco’s last trace of energy, or what remained of it.Ava , Marco's friend , knelt beside her, pressing fingers to the soil as though listening through the ground itself.“His thread is fading,” Ava whispered. “It feels like smoke , I can barely feel him anymore.”The Ancient One tilted his head, the motion sharp, animal-like. “Not fading , Changing , His essence is shifting through planes I can no longer read.”Sophia looked up, her expressi
when divinity breaks
The night had no shape. It hung over the land like a wound that refused to close.Beneath its weight, the world waited.Marco’s eyes snapped open.Stone ceiling. Breath shallow, The smell of iron and dust.For a moment, he couldn’t tell if he was still in the pit of his mind or if he had clawed his way back to the world. The darkness was too still, too deliberate, as if the air itself were listening.He pushed himself upright, every bone shivering with fatigue.Then Whisper.“You thought you left me behind, child of fading light.”Marco froze. The voice wasn’t in the room. It was in his pulse .Malakai, Still there.Still humming like a god’s echo lodged behind his eyes.“Get out of my head,” Marco muttered, pressing both hands to his skull.But the whisper only deepened. It was like standing at the edge of a sea and hearing the tide speak back.“Do you think gods leave so easily? You called my name once, remember? In the dark, when your faith cracked.”“I never called you.”“
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