✨ Scene I: Kael in the Dreamrealm
Kael stood between Alari and the shadow-winged figure.
The space around them was shaped like memory—not places, but feelings.Joy turned to fog. Pain became wind. And time… didn't move at all.
The figure hovered just above the dreamlight.
"You speak as if your words carry weight.But this is not your realm.You walk on thought—and hers is divided."
Kael took a step forward.
"Then I will speak not to her fear—but to her hope."
He placed his hand on Alari's shoulder.
Her eyes, hollow in the waking world, began to glow from within—dim gold, fragile as sunrise.
Kael whispered a single Celestine phrase—only Alari could hear it.
"You are still hers. You are still His."
The shadow recoiled, wings twitching.
"She remembers her name," Kael said."And that means she is not yours."
🔥 Scene II: The First Veilborn Attack
Back in the ruins, the trees bent inward.The ring of starlight shimmered.
Seren and Vaelrix stood side by side, facing the dark.
The creature that stepped forward was once a man—but now it was draped in Veil-wrought shadow. Its mouth opened far too wide.
"We are the silence beneath prayer.We are the answer to abandoned light."
Seren fired first—an arrow blessed by ashen flame.
The shadow caught it mid-air… and screamed.
It was not pain.It was mockery.
Vaelrix charged.His wings flashed once, sending out a wave of light—but it barely staggered the thing.
"It's not here to kill them," Seren said, eyes wide."It's here to consume the bond."
They weren't just defending Kael and Alari's bodies…
They were protecting the very link between soul and world.
✨ Scene III: Kael's Stand
Kael's eyes lit like twin stars.He could feel the pull—the cracking line between dream and body.
The shadow being hissed:
"We were his once too.He cast us out."
Kael's voice was steady now.
"He never cast you out.You chose to fall.And still… He would welcome you back."
He spoke a Celestine word aloud.
"Return."
The dream shuddered.Alari gasped.The being vanished into starlight—
And Kael fell.
🔥 Scene IV: The Final Blow
In the real world, the shadow creature screamed as if something had struck it from within.
Vaelrix roared and plunged his blade into its chest.
Seren loosed a final arrow—
And it shattered into a thousand threads of night.
Silence returned.
Kael and Alari stirred.
And the fire was still burning.