The silver purge took longer than Sebastian predicted.Three weeks instead of two, and even then, not all the Shadowborn recovered fully. Tobias still had tremors; Elena's nightmares intensified; Luna barely left her room, shadows clinging to her like a second skin. The strain affected us all.Amid these struggles, each day blurred into a cycle of training sessions, Council reports, and frantic damage control.I would fall asleep every night, too tired to think, only to wake up three hours later with dreams of failure and fire. On the twenty-second day, Maya cornered me in the infirmary and said, "You cannot keep this pace.""You have lost weight. Your eyes have dark circles that could be their own territory. And I watched you fall asleep standing up yesterday.""I am fine.""You are not fine. You are running yourself into the ground." She grabbed my wrist, checking my pulse. "Your heart rate is elevated. Blood pressure too high. Kaia, you are going to make yourself seriously ill.""I
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