because there, in the city, something appears in the air. Like a flare in the swallowed dark. A soft golden light illuminates from the city’s depths, its rays breaking through the high treetops like sunlight. I stagger back. Because there, Auren’s aura shines from the city’s core. Leading me to her. My bond doesn’t just sing inside my chest now—it peals. Thunders. Releases with a clamor that even the stars can hear. The song it plays is the perfect rhythm of her beating heart. Just like the beacon that first led me to her in the Barrens, she calls again to me now.
