Chapter 41 Disrupted The Spell's Strength

• Raya’s POV
• The silence after Kaelen submerged himself was absolute, a profound, heavy quiet that was immediately broken by the sharp intake of my own breath. The cold, elemental water of the glacial lake was an aggressive shock, and I knew the moment the icy water reached the point of the curse, the binding spell would strike with lethal force. I stood poised at the edge of the dark, frigid surface, every muscle coiled, ready for the counter-move.
• It was not silence that signaled the strike, but sound.