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Chapter 116 – Ashes and Embers
Author: Rukky
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The white light devoured everything. Emily couldn’t breathe, couldn’t see. Her body felt like it was being torn into threads, scattered across the void.

The heat of the cocoon’s rupture seared her bones, but she clung desperately to the shape pressed against her the trembling form of Adrian.

When the light dimmed, she found herself kneeling on something solid.

Not stone. Not flesh. Something in between ashen ground that pulsed faintly with veins of gold and crimson, spreading like cracks in glass across a shattered plane.

Adrian lay crumpled before her. His chains were broken, fragments sizzling and dissolving into smoke. But his body was trembling violently, torn between surges of golden fire and eruptions of crimson flame.

His skin flickered like glass reflecting two suns, threatening to shatter. Emily’s heart clenched.

“…Adrian…” she whispered, reaching for him.

Her fingers brushed his cheek searing hot, then icy cold. He convulsed, eyes snapping open. They weren’t his.

His right e
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