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The First Flame

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Lilly

The northern ridge burned.

Not from fire. Not yet. But I felt it coming in my bones, in the slow twist of my gut, in the way the air shimmered around the edges of Logan’s silhouette as he stared at the live feed with eerie calm.

“They’re cloaked,” he said, still standing at the center of the war room. “Using that shadow tech from the Blight Wars. But it’s old. I can see through it.”

Cassian muttered a curse and typed faster at the console. “He’s not wrong. I’ve got heat signatures now—seven confirmed. That’s an assassination squad.”

Link growled behind me, already halfway to the weapons wall.

But Logan’s eyes never left the screen. “I’ll go.”

“No,” I snapped, stepping in front of him. “You’re three.”

“I’m more than three.”

He didn’t say it with arrogance. He said it with truth.

I crouched to his level, putting both hands on his tiny shoulders. “You are not a weapon. You are not their prophecy. You are my son.”

His gold eyes met mine.

“But they made the mistake of thinking I woul
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