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The Heartstone’s fragments swirled in the air around her, reforming, knitting back together. The God-Killer lay in two pieces on the floor. The hooded figure staggered back, clutching their chest, their hood falling away to reveal a face that was still human but barely—scars upon scars, eyes that had seen too much, a mouth that had forgotten how to smile.

The throne room was a cathedral of despair. Overthrow- The Demon Queen 1

“Then we die,” Kaelen said flatly. “Or worse. You know what she does to those who resist. The ones in the Spire aren’t dead. They’re kept .” The Heartstone’s fragments swirled in the air around

“Don’t thank me. It’s borrowed time. You’ll owe it back.” The throne room was a cathedral of despair

Not the warm red of sunset, but the wet red of a wound that refused to close. It stained the clouds, bled into the rivers, and turned the faces of the living into masks of quiet despair. The demon queen’s ascent had done that—twisted the very atmosphere into a monument to her will.

Kaelen pushed himself to his feet, ignoring the fire in his ribs. He had no weapon. He had no plan. He had nothing but the memory of a sky that had once been blue and a woman he had loved who had died in the first wave of the queen’s conquest.

She slipped through the door the moment the guards’ footsteps faded, moving with a predator’s grace. Kaelen and the hooded figure followed.