Chained Hearts: From Slavery to Sovereignty - Chapter 131: A Past Wrapped in Velvet Shadows

... portrait, his breath caught in his throat. Something in the air suddenly shifted, but with stillness. His vision blurred. The world tilted. And then—

Blackness.

The stone floor beneath his boots vanished.

But he didn’t fall. He drifted away.

Through air? Through time?

He didn’t know.

When his eyes opened again, he was somewhere else entirely.

The sky was a strange color—neither night nor day. Deep red, like old wine mixed with gold dust, st ...