POV DARLENEIt was not a field, nor was it a tower; it was a Primal Arena of Pulsing Sinew. As the iron-wheat of the Eastern Steppe dissolved into a fine, golden mist, the staircase of red clay didn't just lead upward—it Contracted. We emerged into a world that felt like the inside of a gargantuan, living throat. The walls were made of heaving, dark-crimson muscle, and the floor was a drum of stretched, translucent membrane that vibrated with the rhythmic, terrifying beat of a Heart that Predated the Loom.I stood at the center of the membrane, my sunset-gold fire no longer a hearth-light; it had become a Jagged, Predatory Flare, its emerald-crimson edges crackling with the raw electricity of a hunt that hadn't yet been codified into "Justice". The air was thick, hot, and smelled of copper, musk, and the ancient, intoxicating scent of The First Kill—the moment a soul stops being a "Variable" and starts being a Predator."The East fed the hunger, Darlene," Jackson-crow spoke, his voice
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