Chapter 33 The Mother's Sin
- Author's POV
- The Shadow Realm breathed darkness.Not silence—no, silence had sound here. It whispered through the air like smoke, tasted like ash, and echoed like memory. The ground pulsed faintly beneath every step, alive and hungry.
- And in the black citadel at its heart, Clara of Avelen — now the Queen of Shadows — walked the obsidian halls with a steady hand over her swollen belly.