Three years had passed since the night Kael fell.Deep in the frozen mountains, far from Shadowhaven City, snow fell soft and silent around a small wooden cabin. No roads led here. No one came unless they were meant to.Inside, fire crackled in the stone hearth. A man sat on the floor, shirtless, sweat pouring down his back even in the cold. His body was covered in scars—old ones from that warehouse fight, new ones from endless training. Muscles hard as steel. Silver eyes sharp and cold.Kael drove his fists into a heavy log over and over, knuckles bleeding, breath steady. Pain was nothing now. Pain was his teacher.Across the room, an old man watched. Master Ronan. White hair, face like carved stone, eyes that saw everything. He had found Kael half-dead on the riverbank three years ago—body broken, barely breathing, washed miles downstream.Ronan had dragged him out of the water, carried him through the storm, and brought him here. For weeks, Kael hovered between life and death, burn
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