Chapter 546 - CHAPTER 545 — THE PRICE OF HER POWER

Morning sunlight spilled across the training courtyard along Dominion Boulevard, illuminating the cracked flagstones and the fresh scars left by the supernatural disturbances that had shaken Regina throughout the previous night. Warriors gathered beneath the stone arches, some wearing bandages beneath their training clothes, others standing with the uneasy stiffness of people who had survived something they could neither name nor control, while Elara Romano waited at the centre of the courtyard with her gloved hands clasped before her. She had scarcely slept, for the mysterious King beyond the gate had haunted her thoughts, yet she refused to let fear of an unknown future prevent her from understanding the power that now lived beneath her skin. Across the courtyard, Alessandro De Luca watched her with restrained concern, keeping the distance she had requested even though every instinct within him urged him to stand at her side.