Chapter 90
Kael
Kael didn't move after the shift, and for a moment, the stillness felt wrong in a way he couldn't explain. His breathing stayed uneven, his chest rising and falling as the storm settled deeper instead of fading, heavy and controlled in a way that made it harder to ignore.
It wasn't gone. It had changed.
His fingers twitched slightly at his side, the tension in his body tightening as something inside him refused to settle back into what it had been before. The pressure didn't push outward anymore, and it didn't fight him the way it used to. It stayed with him.
Kael's gaze lifted slowly, his focus locking onto Ariana without hesitation, but something in the way he looked at her felt different. The recognition was there, but it wasn't alone anymore, and that shift made something in his chest feel off.
It didn't feel wrong, just not his, like something inside him was shifting into place that didn't belong to who he was now.
