.next-chapter-section {
    position: relative;
    background: #4b0010;
    color: #f6e9dd;
    padding: 180px 20px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

.chapter-container {
    max-width: 900px;
    margin: auto;
    text-align: center;
}

.chapter-divider {
    width: 120px;
    height: 2px;
    background: #d4af37;
    margin: 0 auto 40px;
}

.chapter-label {
    color: #d4af37;
    letter-spacing: 6px;
    font-size: .85rem;
    margin-bottom: 25px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

.chapter-title {
    font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',serif;
    font-size: clamp(3rem,6vw,5rem);
    margin-bottom: 35px;
    color: #fff8ef;
}

.chapter-description {
    max-width: 720px;
    margin: auto;
    font-size: 1.15rem;
    line-height: 2;
    color: #ead6d2;
}

.chapter-date {
    margin: 70px 0;
    font-size: 2rem;
    font-family: 'Cormorant Garamond',serif;
    color: #d4af37;
}

    .chapter-date span {
        display: block;
        margin-top: 14px;
        font-size: 1rem;
        color: #ead6d2;
        line-height: 1.8;
    }

.chapter-button {
    display: inline-block;
    margin-top: 10px;
    padding: 20px 60px;
    border-radius: 999px;
    background: linear-gradient(135deg,#b78a52,#d7b97c);
    color: #4b0010;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: 700;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
    transition: .4s ease;
    position: relative;
    overflow: hidden;
}

    .chapter-button:hover {
        transform: translateY(-4px);
    }
    .chapter-button::before {
        content: "";
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        left: -120%;
        width: 120%;
        height: 100%;
        background: linear-gradient( 90deg, transparent, rgba(255,255,255,.35), transparent);
        transition: left .8s;
    }

    .chapter-button:hover::before {
        left: 120%;
    }


.chapter-note {
    margin-top: 55px;
    color: #d9c6b0;
    line-height: 2;
    font-size: .95rem;
}

.chapter-quote {
    opacity: 0;
    transform: translateY(20px);
    transition: .8s;
    transition-delay: 1s;
}

.reveal.show .chapter-quote {
    opacity: 1;
    transform: none;
}
/* =========================================
   NEXT CHAPTER ENTRANCE
========================================= */

.reveal {
    opacity: 0;
    transform: translateY(70px);
    transition: opacity 1.2s ease, transform 1.2s ease;
}

    .reveal.show {
        opacity: 1;
        transform: none;
    }

.chapter-divider {
    transform: scaleX(0);
    transform-origin: center;
    transition: transform 1s ease;
}

.reveal.show .chapter-divider {
    transform: scaleX(1);
}