Chapter 66: The Flames Within

The Flames Within

The darkness pressed in from all sides.

Aria stood amidst the wreckage of a battlefield, her pulse thundering in her ears. The coppery scent of blood clung to the air, mixing with the distant cries of the wounded. Shadows stretched long and jagged across the ground, cast by the flickering flames of burning debris.

Something felt different this time. Too real. Too vivid.

She took a step forward, her boots sinking into the mud, slick with something far more sinister. Bodies lay strewn across the field—wolves and warriors alike, frozen in their final moments of agony.

Then she heard it.

A whisper, faint and desperate.

"Aria…"

Her breath hitched.

The voice was achingly familiar.

She turned sharply, eyes darting across the battlefield until they landed on a small figure in the chaos. Seraphina.