⸻CHAPTER FOUR – “Trial by Flame”They called it the Trial by Flame.Rowan called it a death sentence.She stood in the center of the arena, alone and exposed, surrounded by cracked stone and ghostly heat rising from the floor. Black scorch marks covered every inch of the walls, as if they were wounds that never fully healed. The circular platform beneath her boots still hummed with old magic, the kind that left a mark.Above, the stadium seats were packed with Arcadia students—hundreds of them. Robes in crimson and black, eyes gleaming with curiosity, doubt, or something sharper.Waiting.Watching.Hoping to see her break.At the topmost tier, seated like judgment itself, Headmistress Vale loomed in her carved throne of basalt and flame. Her robes spilled around her like molten silk, and the golden dragonmark on her brow glowed bright under the sky.“This trial,” she said, her voice cutting through the heavy air, “will determine whether Rowan Blake possesses the control required to r
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