C26 Where the Gods Dared Not Look

The sky cracked like a mirror in its final death throes. Light bled from the fissures, raw, furious, divine.

Eli stood at the altar's edge, and the last flickers of the First Sin dissolved into his skin. The rumbling light pulsing in his veins glowed with holy fire, eyes flickering between gold and violet. There was power pulsing beneath his ribs-not stolen, gifted, but reclaimed