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The sun did not rise this morning.
The sky bled red and gold as if the very heavens had cracked open and spilled forth an early light. Clouds, something ancient hung in the clouds, something that was watching.
Draped in a cloak that billowed like a storm, Eli stood barefoot at the cliffs behind the cottage. Beside him was a still, quiet Amon, eyes trained on the heavens.
"They're coming, aren't they?" Eli asked.
Amon did not nod, but the silence said enough.
Eli stared ahead. "I'm not afraid."
"You should be," Amon replied. "For this time… you will not have a choice."
Eli looked down at his hands. The marking spread across his chest. Now it spanned his ribcage and glowed faintly through his skin like flame stitched into flesh. Lines and shapes—sigils and glyphs—wound around his arms like divine tattoos that he had not earned but always possessed.
"I saw a throne," Eli said, his voice faraway. "On it were wings. And bones. And love."
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They went back to the cottage, with the world shaking under their feet. The air had unnatural sounds mingled in it, the river roared back into the confines of its channel.
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As they entered, a eighth wall, something like the blast from scrambled Eli backward. Essence illumination inside flickered.
And Kael stepped forth from it.
Stars fell.
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The second figure appeared beside him: a woman with winter eyes and hair like living ice. Her voice came cold and calm.
"The Council sends its judgment."
Kael's eyes quick Boyd Amen, then turned to Eli. "You were warned."
Amon stepped before Eli. "And I made my choice."
"You broke the decree," said the woman. "You bestowed him your light. You fused a human soul with the fire of the forgotten."
"He was never just human," Amon retorted.极下.
And now Kael's voice trembled. "He was mine once Roland-once".
Eli step forward. "I was never yours".
Kael looked pained-but only for a second. "Then you shall be no one's."
The sky tore apart.
The angels came down, swords flashing like lightning, faces void of any independent thought.
Amon grasped Eli's hand. " Aon.
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Eli's body moved before he could think. His skin glowed with golden fiery illuminations of the sigils etched onto it. ailleurs; wings-unfoldedlefto back of his body, not feathers but smoke and stars.
He twisted, wove around, raised his hand on the sky to spit out force blasts across it to send the two angels-allies-backward. When another cooled up from the top and stabbed at him from overhead, Amon met her in mid-air and snapped the weapon with his bare hand.
"You remembered." Amon panted, a streak of blood kamp A Rod-coated-through eggs joyfully into his eyes.
"I am remembering," Eli corrected.
But Kael was on the way down with rage.
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"You betrayed me," Kael foyer. "for him!"
"I choose him!" Amon growled captor by examination. "And I'll choose him again."
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Everything froze.
Even time.
Even heaven.
Eli stood in the sky, crowned with fire and memory, his wings stretched wide.
"I will not rule the prophecy," he said. "I will not sit on your throne."
Silently they looked up at him from the Council.
Eli turned to Amon. "And I will not lose you."
Then to Kael. "And I forgive you."
Kael crumpled.
The crown faded.
The angels were whisked away.
The sky turned blue again.
On the ground, Amon stumbled into Eli's arms.
"You could've had it all," Amon whispered. " integer. Power. Pray, rule. Immortality."
"I don't want a kingdom," Eli said. "I want you."
Amon kissed him, trembling, broken, whole.
"I love you," he mouthed.
"I know," Eli said, smiling.
And somewhere, far above, the heavens wept.
Not in anger.
But in awe.