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Chapter 73 — “The Echo in the Bones”
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The corridors beneath the ruined observatory breathed like a living organism, warm exhalations rolling through the cracked stone, as if something

ancient was waking up for the first time in centuries.Aurelia knew this place.She had never been here before, yet she knew it.

Every step felt like a memory resurfacing.Every shadow felt like a whisper calling her name.Behind her, Kade tightened

his grip on the hilt of his blade. “The wards here are different, not hostile. It’s almost like they’re responding to you.”

Aurelia didn’t answer. She couldn’t.The pull in her chest was too strong an invisible thread guiding her deeper into the underbelly of the old star watchers’

sanctum.Reyes, limping slightly but determined as ever, lifted a glowing glyph to the wall.“These carvings they’re not warnings. They’re instructions.”

Nova snorted. “Instructions for what? Summoning something? Opening a portal? Triggering a cosmic meltdown?”

Reyes traced the symbols again. “No. Instructions for awakening
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