Julianna POVUnity, Forgiveness, RenewalThe sun had risen fully by the time Scott and Tepes resumed melting the last of the frost. The courtyard steamed as purple flames and elemental fire burned through the ice with careful precision. Everywhere they walked, life was brought back from cold stillness.I followed with Fianna, Lily, Lila, Niamh, Aria, Wanda, Lyra everyone who was able to help carry or support someone newly thawed. Some collapsed into our arms, trembling; others woke slowly, confused, blinking like newborns.A man cried as his daughter thawed in his arms.A druid elder sobbed when his vines reawakened, curling weakly around his wrist.An elf boy shouted his mother’s name in relief.But then their joy froze not from magic, but from shock as their gazes drifted past us.Where the Sacred Tree once stood…Only splinters remained.A hollow circle of shattered roots.The people’s gasps turned into soft, helpless sobbing.“It’s gone…” someone whispered.“Our ancestors… our mag
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