Chapter 17 THE FRACTURED CROWN OF DESTINY

Beneath a sky streaked with the last glow of dusk and the first hints of dawn, a secret seemed to ride the winds-a secret so deep that no one had ever dared imagine it. In the days after the great unification of echoes, when light had merged with shadow, an uneasy feeling began to stir within the renewed splendor of Axum. Rumors spread of an ancien