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[Scene: Mistlands – A Day Behind Elara's Trail]

FX: Crunching dead leaves, soft wind, distant chimes from nowhere. 🍂🔕

[Visual: Kaelith crouches in the shade of petrified trees, his cloak drawn tightly around him. His blade is strapped across his back, not drawn. He moves silently — hunter mode.]

Kaelith (thinking):

"She told me not to follow. Told me to protect the world, not her."

"But I've already failed one Soulforged in this life. I won't fail another."

[Flashback – Years Ago, Crown Fortress]

FX: Fire. Screaming. Chains being dragged. 🔥🩸

[Visual: A younger Kaelith kneels beside a dying girl — not Elara. A Soulforged before her. She's bleeding from her chest, staring at him.]

[The girl whispers]:

"Don't let the next one become me."

[Scene: Back to Present – Mistland Ravine]

Kaelith scales a cliff quietly. Below, he sees Elara crossing a shallow river — her posture tired but focused.

He doesn't call out.

[Kaelith (thinking)]:

"She's getting weaker."

"She's not sleeping… and the blade's flickering."

He frowns. Then hears something.

FX: A whisper behind him.

"She won't make it."

He spins — blade drawn.

Nothing.

[Scene: That night – Kaelith's makeshift camp – Rain falling softly]

[Visual: He sits under a collapsed tree root, oil lamp lit, sharpening his blade mechanically.]

Kaelith (thinking):

"The Hollow King… What even is he?"

"Not a man. Not a god. Something in between."

He pulls out the black scroll Elara received — he made a copy before she burned the original.

The ink bleeds on its own. A new word appears, written slowly across the bottom:

"SHE IS THE DOOR."

[FX: BOOM — Wind surges. His lamp extinguishes. A circle of mist rises around him — forming a mirror of fog.

Inside the fog, he sees Elara's face.

But her eyes are black. Her mouth stitched shut.

Fake Elara:

"She will give in. They always do."

[Kaelith lunges — his blade slices the mist — the image vanishes.]

[Kaelith (angrily, panting)]:

"You won't have her."

He stabs the scroll through the center with a silver dagger.

It screams.

[Scene: Dawn – Kaelith resumes tracking. Finds strange footprints beside Elara's — smaller, barefoot, inhuman.]

[Kaelith (kneeling)]:

"She's being followed."

[He rounds a corner and sees it — in the distance, a broken statue half-buried in the earth: a faceless god chained at the wrists. Elara is approaching it.]

He steps back, heart pounding.

[Kaelith (thinking)]:

"She's not walking toward danger. She's walking into a trap."

*"A trap that wants her alive."

🧠 Revelation: The Hollow King's Goal

[Kaelith (internal monologue)]:

"Lucien wanted to control her. The Red Judge wanted to break her."

"But this thing… it doesn't want her power. It wants her body. Her soul.

To live through her."

[Flash Cut – Kaelith's memory: Lucien's last words]

"You could have ruled, Elara."

Kaelith (thinking):

"What if she doesn't fall in battle?"

"What if she falls inward?"

[Scene: Final Visual – Kaelith watches from the trees as Elara stands before the temple Ilyra warned her about: made of black roots, breathing, alive.]

She raises her hand to touch the door.

Kaelith's eyes widen.

FX: The temple door pulses — and her hand doesn't stop when it touches it.

[It sinks in, like she's merging.]

[Kaelith (shouting, whispering):

"Elara—!!"

⚔️ TO BE CONTINUED…