Chapter 144 - The Bone Gate

Silver bled through the fractures of the Hollow like veins in a living wound, spreading in argent floods across eternity's marrow. It was not a gentle light, not a blessing it was a searing flood that cut through every shadow, flame, and breath, burning all that had once dared to move within the Hollow. The air was no longer merely silence but a suffocating pressure, as if eternity itself groaned beneath a weight older than decree. Beneath that shimmering tide of silver, another sound stirred low, ancient, and terrible.