Chapter 114 The Tower That Breathes Shadows
- The world felt colder the moment the flame-echo vanished.
- Lucia stood frozen, Kelvin’s steady warmth the only thing anchoring her to the present as the battlefield’s roar dulled into a distant hum. The Third Flame still pulsed beneath her palms, its memory still whispering through her bones, but everything inside her had gone tight—sharp—aching.
- Her mother was alive.