Chapter 80 – The Awakening That Was Never Supposed to Happen
Liora
The second healing should have been the end.
I knew it.
Amelia knew it.
Even the voice that had followed me for weeks knew it.
Forty-seven.
That was always the number.
Forty-seven scars.
Forty-seven burns.
Forty-seven pieces of myself traded away until there was nothing left to give.
The moment my hand remained pressed against Kael's chest and the second healing fully took hold, I felt something inside me break.
Not physically.
Something deeper.
The remaining power surged out of me so violently that I couldn't tell where my body ended and the bond began.
Pain swallowed everything.
It tore through my veins, my bones, my lungs.
I couldn't breathe.
Couldn't think.
Couldn't hear the healer shouting somewhere nearby.
The room blurred around me as the force of the healing ripped through Kael and settled into him, knitting together damage that should never have been survivable.
