"Animae errantes, vocem meam audite." (Wandering souls, heed my voice.)
Serein's brows furrowed. The words Elias sang did not match the original lyrics. His voice, though pitched high, carried a subterranean undertone, as though another timbre sang beneath him. It lent his song a dark resonance, like the summons of a demon.
"Did they change the lyrics?" The schoolgirl beside her blinked in wonder, then burst into cheers along with the crowd. "That's amazing!"
They thought it was a special performance Lumina had prepared.
"Lux fallax cadat, umbra regnat in aeternum." (The false light shall fall, and the darkness shall reign forever.)
But Serein froze, caught like a bird tangled in branches. Her chest constricted as she watched Elias's levo ripple outward, spreading through the stadium with every note of his voice.
