Aeliana could barely breathe.
The world was slipping—flickering between two realities, both equally surreal, equally horrifying.
The cavern. The Kraken.
And beyond that, the strange, dream-like dimension that clawed at the edges of her vision.
There was something watching.
Waiting.
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The noises filled her head, incomprehensible whispers that slithered through her thoughts like oil, twisting around her mind, sinking into her very being.
She didn't understand—couldn't understand—but they were there, pressing against her skull like a thousand unseen hands.
Yet, despite that, her eyes kept returning to him.
Lucavion.
Standing before that thing.
Before the Kraken.
It was huge. Unfathomably massive. A creature born of nightmares, its grotesque form pulsating with an abyssal energy that made the very air vibrate. It radiated power, its sheer presence enough to crush lesser beings into the ground.
And he was still there.
Facing it.
Fighting it.
