"**
Zera stood before the glass window of the **Temple of the Resting**, where beams of light from a distant planet in the world of Nimora pierced through the dust of time settled on the glass, casting dancing shadows across her face.
Adam, visibly exhausted, approached her and whispered:
> "Do you feel that?"
She looked at him, her eyes carrying a mix of caution and confusion.
> "Feel what?"
> "As if someone is watching us… not from outside, but from *inside* this place."
A moment of silence passed. Then Zera took a step toward him.
> "Adam, I need to tell you something… about your grandmother."
His heart pulled back before his body did.
> "What do you mean?"
> "She wasn't just a warrior… She was the last guardian of something called *The Heart of Nimora*—the force that keeps this world separate from yours."
A shiver ran down Adam's spine.
> "And what do I have to do with this?"
She answered in a hushed tone:
> "She gave a part of her heart to you."
He stepped closer. The space between them wasn't measured in footsteps—but in secrets stacked like stones.
He whispered again:
> "Does that… make me part of this world?"
> "More than you realize."
Then, in a moment drawn out in surreal stillness, Zera placed her hand over his chest, where his heart beat steady, and her breath trembled.
> "I've begun to feel it too. Not as something foreign… but like it's calling to me."
Adam moved closer, and in a moment blurred between truth and dream, he **kissed her**.
It was brief—but saturated with what words couldn't express.
As if the very Heart of Nimora trembled.
Suddenly, the lights of the temple flickered and collapsed into darkness, and a familiar voice rang out—freezing the blood in their veins.
> "Adam… you are walking in the wrong direction."
They turned quickly… the voice was coming from the statue of his grandmother.
But the statue began to crack…
And from within it emerged a **shadow** that resembled her—
—but without eyes, without features—only a humanoid silhouette of darkness radiating an indescribable dread.
Zera whispered with a trembling voice:
> "That… is not her spirit.
> That's **'The Denial'**—one of the oldest Guardians of Forgetting."
Adam responded:
> "Why now?"
Zera answered:
> "Because you've started to remember **more than you should**…"
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## ✨ Closing Quote from this Part:
> *"The hearts that search for truth… always find it between the shadows."*
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