Chapter 92
The pressure snapped without warning, not gradually, but all at once, like something had cut cleanly through the force tearing the domain apart. The violent tension collapsed into a controlled stillness so suddenly it made Ariana's breath catch, her lungs stalling as the air around them steadied in a way that didn't feel natural.
Kael felt it immediately, not as resistance, but as something forcing everything inside him to hold. His chest tightened sharply, his breath hitching as the force within him stopped moving the way it had before, and the sudden stillness made his body go rigid without him meaning to.
"Mira," he said, the name leaving him before he could stop it, his voice lower than it should have been.
She stepped forward without hesitation, and the domain reacted differently to her than it had to anything else. The fractured space steadied around her, not resisting or bending, but adjusting, as if her presence belonged in a way that didn't make sense.
