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Chapter 4 - Chapter 4: The First Tear in the Sky

It wasn't thunder. It was reality flinching.

The night after she saw Ling Kushi's shard, the sky cracked.

Just once.

A single violet thread split across the clouds like lightning made of memory.

And no one else saw it—except her.

"Did the sky just… blink?" Liss whispered from the roof.

Below, the Academy slumbered. But on the wind, the bells of the Twelve Holy Temples were ringing.

Thessaly stood beside her, arms crossed, sword glinting in moonlight.

"You saw it too," Liss said.

"I didn't blink," Thessaly replied.

And that was all that mattered.

That same night, a priest from the Holy Temple arrived.

His robes were white. His eyes were empty.

He didn't knock.

He stood outside the dorm window and said:

"The devourer has awakened."

Then he burst into snow.

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