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Training the Untrainable: 4

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Alejandro’s POV

Eldric did not summon a ring. He did not clear space or draw a boundary or warn anyone to step back. That should have terrified me. Instead, it focused me.

The others watched from a distance, Valerius silent as a carved monument, Cassian restless and sharp-eyed, Seraphine unreadable, Zenith standing where she always did now: close enough to anchor me without interfering.

Inferno stirred low and steady, no longer coiled for combat but alert and observant. Eldric planted his st
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