Prologue-Two Souls in an Echoing Surge

[Narrator –spoken, calm] Elara reaches the pedestal that cradles the Aetherium, a shimmering vessel of frozen light. Her fingers stretch out—there! Prince Kael bursts in, guided by a magnetic magical pull. In the struggle, their hands touch the heart at the same instant. Boom! A colossal wave of magic erupts—fire and ice, sun and moon fuse in a painful yet wondrous soulbond that links them forever.