Chapter 177

Sienna’s POV

The ground beneath me trembles so hard it feels like the world itself is breaking apart. I stagger, catching my balance against a cracked stone pillar, but the earth keeps shaking with something unnatural.

What the hell is going on now?

Then the sky starts to shift. It bleeds from gold to a sickly red, veins of darkness crawling across it like spreading cracks on glass. I look up, my breath caught in my throat as lightning splits the clouds. The entire trial realm now feels wrong.

“What’s happening?” I whisper to no one.

A pulse of magic suddenly came through the air, slamming into my chest hard enough to steal my breath. I fell to one knee, clutching the pendant Kieran gave me the only thing that still feels real. A very sharp pain blooms through the bond between us, so