Chapter Twenty: Through the Veil

Silence filled the old chamber, but it wasn’t empty.

It hummed.

Not with noise, but with presence. Like a heartbeat sealed inside stone, pulsing through the carvings, the air, the very bones of the earth.

Lucien crouched near the central stone ring, coaxing a small fire to life in the ceremonial ...

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