C27 The Fall of Heaven’s Gate

The silence before the one that was to take place did not, in any manner, seem like silence. It tittered and trembled deep beneath the skin of every living thing—a dreadful low hum. The Gate, lying at the center of all realms, had begun to split, and as it did, so did heaven itself.

Eli, then, in that crumbling world, stood in the very center of divine destruction. Wings spread