Adina's POV

I didn’t feel my body anymore. Not the cold air, not the pain in my stomach, not the trembling of the earth from distant clashes of power. Everything faded the moment my vision shattered into darkness, leaving me suspended in a still, silent place between breath and nothingness.

I wasn’t dead but I wasn’t alive either.

I was caught in a place that felt like a thin veil between worlds, a fragile shell where my consciousness floated without direction. It reminded me of the ...