Chapter 44 Ancestral Echoes

• The memories hit me in waves, each one carrying the weight of a lifetime. I was Seraphina the First, standing against an invasion of shadow-demons in the kingdom's earliest days. I was Seraphina the Third, sacrificing her own life to seal a breach between worlds. I was Seraphina the Seventh, discovering the
• conspiracy that had shaped her bloodline and choosing to work with it rather than against it.
• Each princess had faced the same choice I now confronted. Each had been offered power beyond imagination in exchange for accepting her role as humanity's defender against cosmic threats. Some had embraced their destiny willingly. Others had resisted and paid terrible prices for their defiance.