Of Shards and Shadows

The shard isn't quiet.It never was.Strange magic spreads through the academy. Students collapse. Mirrors darken. Wards flare without cause. And beneath it all, the fragment Vivi brought back from Atheria pulses with something she can't ignore.Diego feels it too—fire slipping loose, magic unravelling. The closer he gets to Vivi, the worse it gets. But distance doesn't help. The bond between them won't settle. And what they sealed on Atheria wasn't fixed. Just buried.Now the breach is waking.And it remembers them.Some shadows don't stay down.Some ties don't break.And some truths won't wait.