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Chapter 63
Aurora’s feet dangled above the broken stones. Mason’s hand, blazing with silver fire, squeezed her throat. The light burned her skin, each breath a fight. Her dagger lay forgotten on the ground, too far to reach. “Mason!” she gasped, her voice thin and broken. “It's me.”His silver eyes stared into hers. There was no warmth, no recognition, only fire and shadow. His mouth moved, but the words that came out were not his. “She is nothing,” Vazquez’s voice thundered. “Let her break. Let her burn.”Aurora clawed at his arm, her tears blurring the fire in her vision. Somewhere inside that blaze, she searched desperately for him. “Let her go!” Norra’s voice cracked like a whip. She charged forward, her sword glowing faintly in the fire’s light. Her whole body was tense, her face fierce.John, weak and trembling against the wall, raised a hand. “Wait! Don’t.”Norra ignored him. Her blade rose high, aimed at Mason’s back. Aurora saw it through the corner of her eye. Her heart lurched. She
Chapter 62
The courtyard burned with silver light. The ground shook as the fire spread in lines across the broken stones, crawling outward like veins of lightning.Aurora shielded her eyes with one arm, but she refused to look away from Mason. He floated above them, his body wrapped in light, his eyes like twin flames. He was both familiar and strange, both Mason and not Mason. Her chest hurt as she whispered his name. “Mason.”Norra stood with her sword drawn, her face hard. “That’s not him anymore.”John pressed against the wall for balance, sweat running down his face. His voice trembled, but his words were steady. “Don’t be so sure. Look closer. He’s still fighting inside.”Aurora dared to hope. She wanted to believe that what John said was true. But when Mason raised his hand and the air split with a thunderclap, her heart filled with fear again.The blast came without warning. Silver fire surged from Mason’s body in every direction. It raced across the courtyard, swallowing stone and air
Chapter 61
The courtyard glowed with silver light. The shard in Aurora’s hands had cracked, splitting in two. From the burst of fire, Mason stepped forward, but he was not the same.His eyes burned like two silver flames, steady and unblinking. His body looked solid, his movements strong. Yet when Aurora looked at him, her heart twisted with fear. She knew those eyes. They were Vazquez’s eyes. “Mason,” she whispered, her voice trembling.He stood still, staring at her. He didn’t speak. He didn’t even blink. The silence stretched too long, heavy and sharp.Norra lifted her sword slowly. Her knuckles were white. “That’s not him,” she said coldly. “Not anymore.”“Wait,” Aurora said quickly, moving in front of Mason. “We don’t know. He came back to us. That has to mean something!”John pushed himself up against the wall, pale and sweating. He stared hard at Mason. “Look at his eyes. That’s Vazquez’s mark. If you trust the wrong one now, Aurora, we’re finished.”Aurora shook her head. Her heart poun
Chapter 60
The courtyard was silent. The silver blast had burned everything away, the tower’s hum, the endless whispers, even the porcelain army. Now there was only silence, broken stone, and the faint glow of the shard lying on the ground.Aurora’s hand was still outstretched where she had grabbed Mason. Empty now. Her fingers trembled in the cold air. Her chest rose and fell in sharp, uneven breaths.“Mason?” she whispered, her voice breaking. She took one step forward, then another, until she stood where he had been. But he was gone. Only the shard remained, humming faintly.Norra bent down and picked it up. The silver light shimmered in her hand, but it didn’t burn her. She stared at it with narrowed eyes. “Damn it,” she muttered. “He’s gone.”John limped toward them, his face pale. “Not gone,” he said, his voice low. “Not yet. If the shard is still here, then, then part of him is still inside it.”Aurora spun to face him, tears in her eyes. “You don’t know that!”John met her gaze firmly, t
Chapter 59
The tower door split wide with a grinding scream. Silver light poured through the crack, so bright it cut the darkness like fire. The ground shook under their feet. Mason staggered, shielding his eyes with one hand while holding the shard in the other. Aurora clutched his arm. Her voice was sharp with fear. “It’s opening, ”Norra pulled her sword free, her knuckles white around the hilt. “Then we make him regret stepping out.”John, pale but steady, planted his feet. “Don’t underestimate him. The Vazquez we’ve seen so far wasn’t even whole.”Mason’s chest tightened. The whispers that had been haunting him since the Ash Wing were now a roar, hundreds of voices layered over one another, all calling his name. “Keeper. Keeper. Keeper.” And then the door burst open.From the silver light, a figure stepped out. He was taller than Mason remembered, broad-shouldered, his black cloak moving as though alive. His skin was pale, lined with faint cracks that glowed faintly with silver from withi
Chapter 58
The fall felt endless. Mason tumbled through blackness, his hand reaching desperately for anything solid. Norra’s scream cut through the void, then was swallowed by the silence.Cold air whipped around him. The shard in his grip burned, silver light flashing in bursts as though trying to fight the dark, then, impact.He hit a hard stone, the breath knocked from his chest. For a long moment, all he could do was lie there, gasping, his body aching. “Mason?” Norra’s voice. Close. Alive.He forced his eyes open. She was beside him, pushing herself up, her sword lying a few feet away. “We’re here,” she muttered, though her tone was grim.Mason sat up, clutching the shard tighter. “Not where we want to be.”The air around them was thick and bitter. The ground was made of the same black stone he had seen in his vision. Above them, there was no sky, only a swirling canopy of shadows.And in the distance, rising higher than anything else, stood the tower. Its walls stretched endlessly upward,
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