Breaking the Chains of Dust

Summary

In my past life, my bondmate Lyra tried to keep the Gate of Ascension open for her weak old flame, Javier.

The Gate opens only once every ten thousand years—the only chance for adepts to ascend. By delaying its closure, she would doom an entire generation.

So I forced her through. We spent centuries together in the Celestial Realm, and I foolishly thought she’d moved on.

But on the eve of my Archon breakthrough, she poisoned me. As divine retribution tore me apart, she screamed:

"You made Javier miss his ascension! Go rot with him!"