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CHAPTER 10 — “THE SIDE EFFECT”
The newly restored passage stretched before them, a dim, uneven corridor of ancient stone leading deeper into the forgotten catacombs.Moisture dripped from the ceiling, echoing like distant footsteps. Lira held Ray’s arm around her shoulders, supporting most of his weight.He felt unbearably light in her grip, like a thread stretched too far. “Ray…? Ray, stay with me.”Ray’s eyes fluttered open. The faint silver glow beneath his skin dimmed, flickering like a dying candle. “I’m awake… just… tired.”“Tired?” Lira muttered. “You collapsed time and unmade twenty spells, Ray. You should be unconscious.”Ray gave a weak laugh. “Don’t… remind me.”Lira adjusted her hold. “We need to get you somewhere safe before Theron breaches the wall.”Ray closed his eyes, listening to his pulse. “He sounded angry.”“He sounded terrified,” Lira corrected. “That makes him more dangerous.”Ray leaned against her, breath shallow. “Lira… I didn’t want to fight them. I only wanted answers.”“I know.”Her voi
CHAPTER 9 — “THE FIRST THREAD”
The echoes of Arkwright boots slammed through the catacombs, growing sharper, closer, relentless. Lira pulled Ray behind a cracked pillar. “Ray, listen to me, this isn’t like the monastery. These are elites. Inquisitors.”Ray’s gaze stayed fixed on the tunnel entrance, eyes glowing with faint silver light. “I know.”Lira grabbed his arm. “You’re still exhausted from the vision. You can’t fight them like this.”Ray turned to her, calm in a way he hadn’t been before. “I’m not fighting. I’m weaving.”Lira blinked. “Weaving, what?”Ray placed a hand over his heart, where the seal pulsed weakly under his skin. “I understand it now. How to use the part that’s already cracked… without breaking the rest.”Lira stared at him. “Why are you suddenly calm? You were shaking minutes ago.”Ray inhaled shakily. “Because I'm not blind anymore. I finally… remember enough.”Before she could press him, A blast of blue light tore down the corridor. “THERE! BY THE TOMB!”Theron Arkwright’s voice thundered
CHAPTER 8 — “THE TOMB OF THE FIRST WEAVER”
The deeper Ray and Lira moved into the catacombs, the colder the air became. Not the cold of stone or night, A deeper cold. A memory cold.Ray rubbed his arms as a shiver crawled up his spine. “This place... feels wrong.”Lira held her shattered lantern like a useless relic. “It’s not wrong,” she murmured. “Just old. Older than anything above ground.”Ray frowned. “Old doesn’t feel like this.”“Your body remembers something your mind doesn’t,” she said. “That’s why it hurts.”Ray swallowed. “Am I… getting close?”“Yes.”Lira lifted a hand toward the shadows ahead. “We’re almost there.”The corridor opened into a vast chamber carved from black stone. A circular room. Runes etched along the walls.Symbols stitched in patterns Ray vaguely recognized, like seeing fragments of dreams. At the center lay a stone sarcophagus, dust-coated but intact. Ray froze.Lira whispered, “The tomb of the First Fateweaver.”Ray stared at the sarcophagus as a strange, low hum filled the chamber. It echoed
CHAPTER 7 — “THE WHISPER IN THE DARK”
The rumbling deep beneath the catacombs didn’t sound like shifting stone. It sounded like breathing. Ray’s entire body tensed. “Lira… what is that?”Lira tightened her grip on the lantern, knuckles white. “I don’t know. But we need to move. Now.”Ray took an unsteady step back. “Move where? Every direction is just more tunnels.”“We pick one and pray it doesn’t pick us.”“That’s not comforting.”“Nothing about this place is comforting,” she hissed.The tremor grew stronger. Dust rained down. The mural behind them cracked completely and split along the seam of Ray’s carved symbol. Ray swallowed hard. “That… that’s not normal, is it?”Lira shook her head. “No. That’s a reaction.”“To what?”“You.”Ray felt the world tilt. “Me?!”The ground shook again, this time with intent. A low, guttural moan echoed through the corridor, distant but growing closer, scraping against Ray’s senses like claws dragging over bone.Lira stepped protectively in front of him. “Stay behind me.”Ray grabbed her
CHAPTER 6 — “THE CATACOMBS OF ECHOES”
The stairs descended into a cold that felt older than the kingdom itself. Ray held the wall for balance as he followed Lira down the winding stone steps.Every exhale misted in the air. Water dripped rhythmically somewhere in the dark, like the heartbeat of something sleeping beneath the earth.Ray’s voice echoed softly. “Are we… underground?”Lira nodded, lifting a lantern she’d taken from the entrance. “These catacombs were built centuries before the Arkwrights rose to power.”Ray frowned. “Then why hide them?”“Because the people who built them don’t exist anymore.”Ray’s grip tightened on the railing. “Who were they?”Lira didn’t answer immediately. “We’ll get there,” she murmured.After several minutes, the stairs finally widened into a long corridor. Arched ceilings curved over their heads, carved with symbols Ray didn’t recognize, flowing lines, spirals, and shapes that glowed faintly in the lantern’s light.Ray paused to touch one. The stone pulsed beneath his fingertips. He j
CHAPTER 5 — “AFTERSHOCKS”
The rain fell harder as Ray and Lira stumbled through the ruined monastery’s outer wall, their breaths ragged and uneven.The distant shouts of guards echoed behind them, a constant reminder that the Arkwright hunt wouldn’t stop, not now, not after what Ray had done. Ray’s legs shook beneath him. “Lira… wait”His voice broke, and he leaned against a crumbling stone pillar. Lira immediately spun toward him. “Ray? Ray, talk to me. What’s wrong?”Ray pressed a hand to his chest, gasping. “It… it feels like something’s tearing inside, like the seal is… ripping.”Lira grabbed his wrist and lifted his hand away. A faint glow pulsed beneath Ray’s skin, like threads of light knitting and unknitting inside him.Lira swore under her breath. “Damn it… you pushed too far, too fast.”Ray slid down the pillar, sitting heavily in the mud. “I didn’t have a choice.”“I know,” she murmured, kneeling in front of him. “But awakening a Healer’s Dome at this stage? Even prodigies don’t do that.”Ray gave a
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