The Tundra was no longer silent. The vast, white expanse was now a cacophony of cries, howls, and the frantic, irregular heartbeats of five thousand confused souls. We had successfully awakened an army, but as I looked out over the shivering mass, the "nursing" side of my brain went into immediate triage mode. They were starving, their electrolytes were non-existent after a thousand years of stasis, and their magic was leaking out of them in dangerous, uncontrolled bursts that scorched the snow“We can’t take them back to the North, Elara,” Killian warned, his human form leaning heavily against a jagged rock. He watched a Feral-Sovereign—a woman with patches of silver fur along her spine—who had just accidentally frozen a ten-foot patch of ground solid just by crying. “They are walking anomalies. Their resonance is too high, too jagged. They’ll tear the Spire’s delicate ecosystem apart just by breathing. They need a place that can absorb this much raw, unstable energy.”“We aren’t
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