Light swallowed the world for a moment. When it faded, the chamber settled into an unnatural stillness. Every bone surface gleamed with a cold white glow. The air tightened around my lungs as if the cavern itself waited to see what would happen next.
Eidos stood in the center of the altar ruins.
His new form was not fully solid, not fully stable, but it was already wrong in ways I could not name. Bone shaped his limbs like armor grown from a living skeleton. Lunar light threaded through the cracks in his chest, pulsing in steady rhythm. Shadows clung to him like smoke that refused to drift away.
But his eyes were the worst. Silver and red. Twin reflections of Selene, sharpened into something cruel and knowing.
Jax stepped in front of me with a snarl that shook the air. His claws length
