The night the stars began to bleed light, Kael knew the old tales were true. For years, he’d dismissed the village legends—whispers of a *Veil* between worlds, torn open by human ambition. But when his younger sister vanished into a crackling aurora, he vowed to find her. Now, as an engineer haunted by guilt, he experiments with forbidden artifacts… until a mishap with an ancient prism hurls him into the dark. He wakes not to alien metal, but to a realm where trees hum and stones pulse with trapped starlight. And they are waiting.