Beneath the silence of the salt-crusted plains, a deeper story breathes—one long forgotten by those who chose survival over memory. As Reva journeys beyond Kara-duun, the world begins to shift. The land itself seems to remember her: the salt hums beneath her feet, ancient stones pulse at her touch, and shadows cast by vanished seas flicker at the edge of her vision. Every step takes her farther from the girl the village named Saltborn and closer to the truth etched in the bones of the world. The sea was not destroyed—it was sealed, entombed in salt and silence by ancestors who feared its power, and Reva, unknowingly, carries the key to its awakening. She is not the first to walk this path, but she may be the last. Along the way, she meets remnants of a forgotten order—guardians, wanderers, and dreamers who once believed in the return of the...