Chapter 106
As Kael stepped fully into the domain, the space behind him closed without resistance, leaving no trace of where they had come from. There was no tearing sensation or violent shift, only a quiet separation that felt final in a way he couldn't explain.
The silence that followed didn't feel empty or abandoned, but settled and complete, as if the place itself had no need to respond to anything that entered it. It wasn't the absence of sound that unsettled him, but the sense that nothing here required movement to exist.
The ground beneath his feet felt too smooth and too even, untouched by time or change in a way that didn't belong to anything natural. Above them, the sky remained still without light shifting across it, holding steady as though time had no reason to pass within this space.
