The Final Verse

A second tremor shook the Spire.

The mist around them thickened, swirling in rapid currents. The air hummed with dark energy.

Alina’s expression hardened. “Elias. What do we do?”

Elias’s hands curled into fists.

The harp wanted him to play. It had called him to the Spire for this moment.

But if he failed…

He took a slow breath. His fingers brushed the strings.

The first note rang through the chamber.

The moment the sound reverberated through the air, the Spire reacted.

The mist whipped into a frenzy, spiraling upward like a storm. The very walls of the chamber shifted, revealing long-forgotten symbols glowing beneath the stone.

And from the depths of the Spire. Something screamed.

Elias flinched. The harp’s strings burned against his fingertips, the melody pushing against him, demanding to be finished.

But the voice in the darkness… it was fighting back.

Joran took a defensive stance. “Elias, if you’re going to do something, do it fast.”