Astra and Kael stood in the shattered chamber. Around them, pasts dissolved like smoke.
She handed him a node crystal—one encoded with Ashveil's original tactical grid.
"You'll need this," she said. "Something's waking up in the Wastes. Something that remembers us all."
Kael took it.
She turned to leave.
"Where will you go?" he asked.
She didn't look back. "To find the ones they buried deeper than us."
As the temporal rift stabilized, Kael climbed back into the present-day Ashveil. Echo hovered close, eyeing him.
"You didn't kill her."
"She didn't kill me."
"She still might."
Kael looked at the crystal.
"I think we'll need each other before this ends."
Above them, the sky blinked.
A second beacon had activated—one Kael hadn't sent.
[Signal Detected – Origin: Unknown Vault – Sector ZH-0: The Godgrave]
And from that direction, the wind whispered…
"You are not the only Echoborn anymore."