After a night of feasting on glowing fruits and dancing under floating lanterns, Kairo escorted May back to the portal stone. “You have fulfilled your first trial, May. The next portal will open at sunset tomorrow. Remember, the tide will not wait forever.”
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Kairo led May through luminescent streets where buildings resembled coral reefs, their surfaces rippling with soft light. The city’s inhabitants—graceful beings with translucent skin and hair that floated like seaweed—watched curiously as she passed. After a night of feasting on glowing fruits