C70 THE HEART OF THE WORLD
The brightness consumed everything.
Elara couldn't tell if she was alive or just remembering what it was like to be alive for a moment.
There was no sky, no sound, and no ground underneath her. There was only an unending white fire that pulsed with a heartbeat older than time.
She floated, weightless. Her body felt both infinite and fractured.
Then—"Elara..
