"The past isn't gone. It simply waits."
đ Scene: The Tower's Heart â The Hall of Echoes
The battle with the Crimson Cult had scarred them. Arishka slept fitfully, her body healing â but her soul still bound by old wounds. Jemil stood watch over her, his blade across his lap, staring at the shifting walls of the Tower.
They were in a new floor now â Level 36 â and this one was different.
It was silent.
Not the calm kind of silence⌠the pressing kind. Like the Tower itself was holding its breath.
And then, the whispering began.
"You abandoned me."
A voice. Feminine. Familiar.
Jemil turned â and saw her.
đŻď¸ The Ghost of Veyra
Veyra.
She wasn't alive â not truly. Her body shimmered like smoke, and her eyes⌠held the sadness of someone who had waited too long for an apology.
"You told me I mattered," she said.
"You did," Jemil said, stepping forward. "You do."
"Then why didn't you save me?"
The floor trembled.
đ The Hall Reacts to Memory
This was no illusion.
