CHAPTER 243: Tying All Loose Ends

LUMINA

The mouth of the cave yawned before us like a wound in the earth, dark and foreboding against the late afternoon sky. I stood between Lyn and Lynn, my hands clenched into fists at my sides as I stared into the shadows that held our greatest enemy. The weight of what we were about to do pressed down on my shoulders, but underneath the gravity of the moment, I felt something I hadn't experienced in years - a sense of righteous purpose that burned clean and bright in my chest.

Andy was down there, chained and helpless, paying for crimes that had torn...