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The Forest’s Champion

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The Forest’s Champion

The trees did not fall silent.

Their fearful whispers grew louder, building like storm winds into a crescendo of despair. Branches swayed though no wind stirred them, leaves rustling in a thousand shivering voices. Mirra could hear them all: the cry of birch, the wail of pine, the groan of oak.

They spoke of fading light, of a chill spreading through their ranks like frost in mid-summer.

They spoke of roots clawing at barren soil, searching desperately for purchase where none remained.

They spoke of leaves crumbling to ash before they could fall, vanishing into dust.

Each wordless plea echoed in her bones, in the green-threaded veins of her magic.

Their suffering was her suffering.

She pressed a fist against her chest, gasping at the ache that settled there. It was not her own heart alone that throbbed in pain, but the collective agony of the woods. She was Forest Witch, and her bond was not metaphor. She was part of them, as they were part of her.

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