SYLVARA POVThe containment chamber was nothing like I expected.It wasn't a cell. It was a room carved from black stone so ancient it seemed to drink the light itself, its surface polished to a mirror shine that reflected crimson runes pulsing along every wall like a heartbeat.With each pulse, the runes blazed brighter, then dimmed, then blazed again in a rhythm that made my skin crawl just looking at it. And in the center, suspended in air by pure magical force that bent reality around it, was a sphere of shifting energy that seemed to exist in multiple dimensions at once.The energy inside it writhed and twisted like something alive and conscious, watching me with an awareness that went far beyond magic."Step inside," Selene said quietly from behind me, her voice carrying a weight of resignation that made my stomach twist.I refused to move.The guards flanking me… tall, pale vampire soldiers with eyes like burning coals shifted slightly, ready to force the issue if I continued to
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