Location: Training Clearing, Thornhaven Village
Date/Time: 15 Ashwhisper, 9938 AZI
Realm: Mid Realm
The bond was screaming.
Not sound. Not vibration. Something deeper — the thread between Voresh and Lyria pulled so tight it had become a wire of pure anguish, transmitting her absence like a signal fire broadcasting into his chest. Every heartbeat carried a pulse of wrong wrong wrong GONE. Every breath drew in air that tasted of her leaving.
Voresh's hands were on the moss beside her body. He hadn't touched her — Vaelith had said not to interfere — but his fingers had sunk into the earth as if gripping the world itself could keep her in it. His nails had torn through moss, through soil, into the root system beneath. He didn't notice.
Thirty thousand years of control.
