Chapter 45: The Falling Trial

Chapter 45: The Falling Trial

Chapter 45

Ariana did not move as she kept her eyes on Augustus standing in the broken doorway, as if he had always been there. He looked calm, almost relaxed, like nothing in this place could affect him, and that was what unsettled her the most. The darkness around him spread slowly across the floor, moving like something alive until it reached her golden light. The moment the two forces touched, the air shifted, and she felt a tight pressure settle in her chest, not painful, but unmistakably wrong.

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