Emergency alliance meeting four hours after the probe attack because apparently nearly dying and discovering you're the key to apocalypse required immediate discussion, and when I walked into the conference room every single person there looked at me like I was a bomb about to detonate.
Which, fair. I apparently was.
"Explain." Kael's Alpha command filled the room. "How is she the door?"
Morgana pulled up research I'd never seen before—ancient prophecy, older than the verse about destroying darkness at the root, original text that made my stomach drop.
"The full prophecy has three verses." Her voice was grim. "We only knew two. The third was hidden. Sealed. It says: 'The shadowed blood will bind the beasts or break them. But binding is not ending. The Queen must choose—destroy the darkness at the root or watch it grow eternal. And when the Queen stands at the threshold between all states, the door will open and darkness will have its key.'"
