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CHAPTER 41 – Breaking PointThe heat around the summit thickened until every breath scraped against Rowan’s throat. She stood with her feet planted firmly on the broken ridge, her fire rising in a slow steady glow. Azeriel faced her from across the crater, his blue flames rolling off his shoulders like a storm that refused to calm.Neither of them moved at first. The mountain answered the tension with a deep rumble that shook loose ash from the cliffs. The Fire Source pulsed behind Rowan, each beat stronger than the last, almost like a warning.Azeriel tilted his head slightly. “You really think you can stop me now.”Rowan kept her eyes on him. “I’m not here to stop you. I’m here to finish what we started.”He laughed softly, but there was no humor in it. “Finish. You think this ends because you say so.”“It ends because it has to,” Rowan said. “Look at the mountain. It can’t take much more.”“I don’t care what breaks,” he said as the flames around him sharpened. “Not as long as I win

CHAPTER 43 – What Flames HideThe Fire Source pulsed behind Rowan like it had been waiting for the moment to tighten the air between them. Azeriel’s eyes did not leave her. His grip on the ground shifted as if he was fighting the urge to move first.Rowan did not step back. Her chest was still shaking from the vision but she kept her voice steady.“You think power is the only thing you need, but that is not your fear.”Azeriel’s fire rose at his feet.“Then tell me what you think I fear. Go on.”The air cracked. He lunged forward and Rowan caught the strike with her own flame. The impact pushed them apart. Heat spread across the crater floor. Rowan braced herself before he could hit again.“You want to keep talking,” he said. “I am done talking.”He charged again. Rowan met him with a wall of fire. Their flames locked. The force rippled between them like two storms colliding. The ridge groaned under their feet.Azeriel pushed harder.“You saw something in that vision. You think it cha

CHAPTER 45 – Burning TruthsThe crater pulsed with tension. Flames licked the jagged rocks around them, reflecting off Rowan’s golden-blue fire, her hands trembling slightly as she fought to steady herself. Azeriel’s eyes burned with intensity, his blue flames snapping erratically, mirroring his rising fury.“You need to understand something,” Rowan said, her voice cutting through the roar of the Fire Source. She took a step forward, letting her fire rise in gentle arcs, not aggressive, just enough to assert herself. “I saw the prophecy. I saw why we were born—why we were separated.”Azeriel’s fire jumped higher, reacting instantly. “Stop lying to me,” he snapped. “I don’t care what visions you claim. You’re trying to trick me, to make me falter!”“No,” Rowan said, raising her voice, letting her flames ripple with clarity and purpose. “I’m not lying. I saw it. We were made from the same fire, two halves of one whole. We were meant to either save or destroy everything together. The ma

CHAPTER 47 – The ShatteringThe ground trembled under Rowan’s feet as soon as the last word left her mouth. Azeriel’s flames surged upward in a sharp burst, brighter than anything she had seen yet. The mountain answered with a low rumble that rolled through the crater like a warning.“Azeriel, stay with me,” Rowan called, reaching for him again.He tried to steady his breathing, but the fire around him snapped and cracked like it had a mind of its own. The air thinned under the heat, glowing with scattered sparks that floated through the crater like burning snow.Kai stepped closer, his eyes searching the fissures forming around the rim. “Rowan, the summit is giving out. Something is happening to the Source.”A sharp pulse shot out of the crater floor. Rowan felt it in her bones, a hard jolt that shook her balance. Azeriel flinched as if the ground itself had punched through his chest. A deep groan rose from the center of the crater.Then the Fire Source erupted.A violent burst of fl

CHAPTER 49 – UnboundThe moment Rowan tightened her grip on Azeriel’s arm, the fire around him shifted. The gold and blue shimmer broke apart and deepened, darkening into a shade she had never seen. It wasn’t normal flame. It was thicker, heavier, almost like liquid heat spilling from his skin. Rowan’s breath caught as the air around him changed from burning to blistering.“Azeriel, look at me,” Rowan said, pulling at him. “Stay with me. You’re slipping.”His eyes snapped open. The usual red glow was gone. A strange mix of gold and dark fire swirled inside them like something trapped and breaking free.“Rowan,” he breathed, voice shaking. “Something’s wrong inside me. I can’t stop it.”The ground beneath them cracked again, but this time it wasn’t the Fire Source reacting. It was him. The heat pouring from his body rippled across the summit like a wave. Rowan’s hair lifted from the force.Kai shouted from the ridge. “Rowan move back. His fire is changing.”She didn’t move. She couldn’