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Chapter 32
"You think he wasn't alone?" Mason asked.Headmaster Orvel didn’t answer immediately. His gaze drifted toward the shattered greenhouse wall, where vines still twitched with the echo of magic. He seemed older today. Not in years, but in burden.“The Varneth Eye is one of thirteen,” he said at last.The silence that followed was suffocating.Mason blinked. “Thirteen?”Orvel nodded, grim. “Thirteen mirrors. Each built from the same forgotten glass. Each connected to a different realm. Only one is at the academy. The rest... scattered. Buried. Lost. Or worse, hidden.”“Hidden by who?” Norra asked.Orvel’s voice darkened. “By the Cabal of Thorns. A secret order of scholars who believe the mirror realm isn’t a threat... but a key.”Aurora crossed her arms. “Key to what?”“To power,” Orvel said, “and to rebirth. They believe the realms should merge. That death is simply the first door.”Mason’s stomach turned. “And Grayson?”“One of their high members,” Orvel said. “I suspected for years, bu
Chapter 31
The silence in the infirmary was stifling. Mason sat beside Elara’s bed, hands folded tightly. The thin curtains surrounding her hospital cot swayed gently with the wind from the cracked window, but her words lingered far heavier than the breeze.“It’s not a prison,” she’d said again, her voice hoarse, eyes distant. “It’s a waiting room. Someone, or something, is trying to come back through the Eye.”Aurora, standing by the foot of the bed, looked pale. “Come back from where?”Elara didn’t answer right away. She stared at the ceiling. “From whatever’s behind the mirror. From where the souls go after they’re taken.”Norra leaned forward. “You mean like an afterlife?”“No,” Elara said softly. “Not quite. More like a… mirror-world version of ours. Bleaker. Older. Hungrier.”Mason’s fingers clenched. “Did you ever see it?”“Just glimpses.” Elara slowly sat up, wincing. “But I remember something else. Before I was bound in chains, someone visited me. A man.”Mason froze. “What kind of man
Chapter 30
She was there. Bound in chains of silver light. Thin, trembling, her hair matted with ash.Elara.Mason stood frozen, the image of her face burned into his vision long after it vanished from the surface of the Eye. Her lips hadn’t moved. Yet somehow, he had heard her.“Help me.”Aurora’s voice cut into the silence. “Did you see that?”Norra stepped forward, eyes wide. “A girl.”“I think it was her,” Mason said softly. “Elara. She’s in there.”Orvel’s brow furrowed, voice cautious. “Impossible. Elara died, six months ago.”“No.” Mason shook his head. “Her body was found. But her soul, what if it didn’t pass on?”“What if it was taken,” Aurora added, catching on. “By the mirror.”Orvel looked back toward the Eye, the mirrored disc still glimmering faintly in the vault's golden light. “If that’s true... then the Eye has begun collecting again.”Mason turned to him. “Then we have to go back in.”“No,” Orvel snapped. “You barely survived last time.”“Because we didn’t understand it. But no
Chapter 29
Mason stared at the shard. It was no bigger than his thumb, but it pulsed faintly, rhythmic, alive. The air around it crackled with a silent hum, like a memory refusing to die.Aurora crouched beside him, brushing soot from her robe. “It shouldn’t be doing that.”“No,” Mason whispered, “it shouldn’t even exist.”They’d shattered the mirror, expelled the being within. The room reeked of burnt magic, and the stone beneath the frame still smoked. But the shard sat perfectly intact, defying reason.Aurora reached for it. “Wait.” Mason stopped her hand. “We don’t know what’s left inside.”She hesitated. “If that thing’s still in there…”“I don’t think it is,” Mason murmured. “But something else might be.”Footsteps echoed from the far end of the chamber.Both turned.An old man stepped into the room, robes of midnight blue trailing behind him, a crystal-tipped staff in hand. His face was thin, long-bearded, eyes hidden behind silver-rimmed spectacles.Headmaster Orvel. “You weren’t meant to
Chapter 28
The wall sealed behind them with a soft shhhck, like breath being drawn into a closed mouth.Mason turned instinctively, heart racing, but there was no door to reopen, no seam to pry. The room was gone. The world was gone. Only the mirror remained, tall, flawless, still. And humming.“Do you hear that?” Aurora whispered.He nodded. It wasn’t a sound exactly, more like a feeling. A presence crawling up their spines, whispering through their teeth, pressing against their minds.Mason reached toward the mirror. “Wait, ” Aurora grabbed his wrist.But his fingers had already brushed the glass. And everything shattered.The fall wasn’t physical. It felt like being pulled through water that had no temperature, through darkness that had no color, through memory that wasn’t entirely his.And when Mason landed, it was on grass. Warm. Sun-kissed. Soft. He blinked.They stood in a forest clearing, surrounded by tall white trees with golden leaves. A stream ran nearby, glistening beneath twin suns
Chapter 27
The moment Mason crossed the gates of Argent Academy, something felt… wrong.The air was too still. Not quiet, Argent was never quiet, but stiff, like the grounds themselves were holding their breath. Students bustled between classes, robes fluttering, wands at their hips, laughter echoing in the courtyards. It looked normal.But Mason could feel it. Underneath the surface. Something had shifted.Norra walked beside him, her hood low. She hadn’t said much since they left Virell’s Hollow, and Mason hadn’t pushed. Whatever she faced during her trial had left a scar he couldn’t yet see. John had returned to his family estate under a secrecy pact. He didn’t want his bloodline tied to Vazquez publicly.Mason understood. He didn’t want his name tied to the suit either.They passed the east tower, where duels were held. A small crowd was gathered around a chalk-drawn ring. Two second-years were sparring, their magic crackling in the air.Mason glanced over, and froze. Standing just beyond
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