The city of Arkveil was supposed to be gone.
Burned.
Buried.
Forgotten.
But as Kai and Seris crested the final hill, they saw its jagged spires still standing — a skeleton of stone wrapped in vines of magic and regret.
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"Charming place," Seris muttered, eyeing the blackened gate towers. "I thought this city fell during the Goddess Wars."
"It did," Kai replied. "But this isn't the version that burned."
She shot him a look. "You're making less sense by the hour."
He didn't argue.
He felt it too — the wrongness.
Like Arkveil had been pulled from a memory that never belonged to him.
As they stepped through the gate, Kai felt it in his bones: the weight of choices he hadn't made yet.