This chapter is quite technical in the lore and can be confusing.
Eve
Kael didn't answer me at first.
His eyes were fixed on the stone floor like it had betrayed him. His mouth opened, closed, opened again. And then he laughed.
A single, broken breath of sound.
"Gods," he whispered. "It wasn't just some freak coincidence."
The words made the hairs on my neck rise.
"What wasn't?" I asked, pulse spiking. "Kael, what are you talking about?"
He dragged a hand down his face, then looked at me—looked at Elliot—and the weight in his gaze nearly buckled my knees.
"It's what he said in his sleep," Kael said quietly. "It wasn't just the pleading. It was the name."
"What name?"
He hesitated.
Then: "Nox."
The name hit the air like a curse.
I blinked, confused. "Who—?"
"Hades' puppy," Kael said. "From when he was a boy. Before the training, before the rituals, before the Flux ever fully woke in him. It was the only thing he loved."
I felt something cold slide into my veins.
