The world that unfolded before me was not the one I had known. It was something else—something alive. As I stood on the edge of this new reality, the sky above shimmered with a thousand colors I had never seen. The air tasted of magic, of possibility, of untapped power.
And beneath my feet, the earth breathed, sighing in welcome, as if it had been waiting for this moment.
I felt it. A pulse deep within the land, in the very veins of the world that had once bled and broken under the weight of the Blood Court’s tyranny. Now, it was healing. Not just the land... but everything. The balance was shifting.
It was all changing.
I breathed in deeply, feeling the weight of what I had just done, of what I was about to do. The girl beside me—if she could even be called that—still stood with her o
