Chapter 107
The silence didn't lift after Vaelor spoke. It settled deeper instead, pressing into the space in a way that made it feel heavier, as if something had shifted that could not be undone.
Kael didn't move at first, but the tension in his chest tightened in a way that felt unfamiliar. The images were gone, yet they lingered in him, not as memories he could clearly understand, but as something that had already taken hold.
"That's not possible," he said, though the certainty behind the words had already weakened. He kept his gaze forward, but his focus wasn't on the space anymore.
Ariana didn't answer right away, her attention still fixed ahead as if she was listening to something beyond what he could hear. Her posture remained steady, but there was something different in it now, something that felt more aware than before.
"It already happened," she said quietly. "I remember it… not all of it, but enough."
