The Tide's Crest camped on the jagged plateau, the rift altar's runes was dim but it pulsed with ominous energy, casting violet shadows across the scorched stone.
Kelvin knelt by the fire, its flames were sparked by Xerion's breath, his shoulder and leg wounds throbbed beneath bandages from the riftclaw and shadowdrake battles. The coded tablet's warning flared up.....
"The Sovereign's rift opens soon. Lirien prepares. The traitor's name is hidden"
This burned in his mind, the Veil codex was heavy in his pack, its cryptic symbols was holding answers to the Sovereign and the Sanctum traitor was tied to Zack's manipulation.
The cloaked figure's fleeted shadow, its runes glowed before vanishing and it gnawed at him, urging the trio to hunt Cindy and end her schemes.
Xerion, the End-Tyrant, coiled nearby, his twenty-foot serpentine form a cascade of crimson and gold scales, scarred but radiant in the fire's glow.
