No one moved. Not because they didn't want to, but because they couldn't. Sage and the others were frozen in place, as if some unseen force had anchored them to the ground. It felt like an invisible hand was pressing down on them, heavy enough to crush them where they stood.
Their muscles refused to respond; their breaths came out shallow and broken. Even lifting their heads felt like trying to carry a mountain on their backs. Yet, despite everything, they forced themselves to look up.
Because what loomed above them… was impossible to ignore.
Sage's pupils trembled violently, not from shock or confusion but from something primal, a deep-seated fear that coursed through his veins and gripped his heart with icy fingers.
