Location: The Veiled Chamber — [Outside of Time]
There was no door.
No floor.
No sky.
Only velvet blackness, and one table between them.
Elias blinked, unsure how he had arrived. One moment, he was reaching for Rina. The next—nothing. Then this.
Velvety silence.
A room with no edges.
And across from him—
Velhira.
No divine robes. No corrupted flesh. Just a woman with long dark hair, eyes tired rather than cold, and lips unpainted by power.
She sat calmly, like someone waiting at the end of a long war.
> [System Override: Conflict Lock]
Neither party can initiate combat, use system skills, or lie within the Veiled Chamber.
"Where are we?" Elias asked, cautious.
Velhira folded her hands. "Somewhere safe from both of us."
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Truth Revealed
She didn't speak as a goddess.
She spoke like a memory.
