Chapter 70 New Beginnings

• Three days after the Guardian's Binding, I stood on the highest tower of the castle, watching the sun rise over a kingdom that looked deceptively peaceful. The dimensional rifts had sealed, the entities had been banished, and life was slowly returning to normal for most of our people. They had no idea how close they'd come to extinction, or how much had changed in their rulers during those crucial hours.
• I could feel Aldric approaching long before he reached the tower, our bond now operating across vast distances. The ritual had transformed all three of us, but our connections to each other had become something unprecedented—a shared consciousness that maintained our identities while linking our thoughts and emotions.
• "Any word from the northern kingdoms?" he asked, joining me at the stone railing.