The Wolf's Game
The marks crawl higher, winding up my arm in intricate patterns, like veins of living fire.
When they reach my shoulder, the bloom dissolves into light and imprints itself into my skin.
A tattoo of crimson petals blossoms across my shoulder blade. It is warm and alive with a pulse humming with the same rhythm as the heartbloom itself.
Then, with a single deafening crack, the entire garden dissolves around me. The vines shatter. The thorns crumble. The maze collapses into dust.
I stand alone on the clearing floor, panting, trembling, with an arm blazing with new power.
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