The silence between them didn't last long. Erend was the first to move.
His gaze shifted between the two of them, studying their expressions, the tension in their posture, and the way their Magic lingered unsettled around them.
He didn't need to ask if something was wrong anymore. He could already see it.
"You both saw it too, didn't you," he said.
Aesa crossed her arms slowly, her brows slightly furrowed.
"If by 'it' you mean those… things inside the fragment," she replied, her voice cold but edged with discomfort, "then yes."
Eccar sighed, low and controlled.
"It is an incomplete being," he added. "It is unstable and not fully formed. Like something that failed to exist properly. That's what I saw when I entered its mind."
Erend nodded faintly. "Yeah… I saw the same."
A brief silence passed again.
"It talked to me," Erend continued. "Not like talking properly with words, but it sent its feelings. But that was enough."
That made both of them look at him more sharply.
