{Elias's POV continued.}
The room suddenly flooded with a brilliant, ancient, and powerful golden light, causing Cassian to stagger backward while shielding his eyes as he began, "What in the gods..."
The sentence never finished; the light swallowed everything as warmth surged through me, responding directly to the desperate cry of my heart to reach her side. Reality twisted violently; the walls stretched and folded inward as the world itself seemed to bend around the sheer force of my desire to close the distance between us, and then, everything vanished.
