Chapter 125

***Maeve's POV**

The portal tore through reality like a wound in the world's flesh. I stepped through into the Shadow Realm, and immediately the air tried to choke me. Thick as tar, cold as death, filled with the screams of things that should never have existed.

But I had come too far to turn back now.

My boots hit ground that felt wrong under my feet, not solid, not quite liquid, but something in between that tried to pull me down with each step. The sky ...