Chapter 18: Reawakening
The masked man plunged his dagger into the ground.
The earth trembled.
The crack in the sky grew wider, darkness rushing through like ink in water. The air hummed low, unnatural, rippling through the battlefield.
Then, he began to chant.
"O fractured time, O endless tide,
Unseen god, break your stride.
With stolen blood, my voice resounds,
Grant me strength, unchain these bounds!"
The air twisted. A crushing weight pressed down on everything. Liz’s heart pounded as the very air thickened, like the world itself was suffocating them.
Caius’s breath hitched. He grabbed Vander and Rowan, pulling them back. "We need to move—NOW!"
Liz barely had time to react before Kael’s lifeless body collapsed in her arms.