Chapter 336: When Stones Begin to Whisper
Sophia stared at Eldric for a long moment, the words we need to go to the shrine still echoing faintly in her ears.
Then she sighed.
Not the sharp, irritated kind—but the deep, bone-weary sigh of someone whose body had already reached its limit for the day.
"Eldric," she said slowly, rubbing a hand down her face, "I understand your… obsession with whatever is written on that shrine. Truly. I'm curious too. But you can't just show up whenever you feel like it and expect me to drop everything and follow you."
He opened his mouth, but she raised a hand, stopping him.
"I'm exhausted, like really fucking exhausted," she continued. "I just came back from training. Brutal training where I fell numerous times because Orion isn't going easy on me. My bones ache, my muscles feel like they're stitched together with fire, and I didn't even go to the library today because of it—which you know is not like me."
