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Lira stood at the Gorge's edge with Aria and Sorrel, peering into the mist-shrouded darkness below.
"The ward is at the bottom," Aria said, consulting a crystal that pulsed with faint blue light. "I can feel it. It's weak, but it's still there. The old magic is different from the Sunken Hollow — older, wilder. This isn't a seal placed by wolves. It's something that was already here when the First War was fought, something the ancient ones tried to close and never quite succeeded."
"Then how do I reinforce it?"
"I don't know. The seers' records are fragmentary for this site. They speak of a 'gift of fire and frost' — a sacrifice that balances opposites. But they don't specify what form the sa