A REPLACEMENT FOR ALPHA KAEL
But this oath, this promise, was absolute.
No harm will come to you, I whispered again. No force will claim you while I breathe.
The attackers hesitated, sensing the shift. My fire was no longer a chaotic storm, no longer a surge of destructive instinct. It had matured, controlled, focused. I directed it outward like water from a spring, a tide that pushed, disoriented, and repelled. Twigs splintered, leaves scattered, earth quaked beneath the subtle force. Yet it did not harm the innocent forest around me—it flowed around the trees, around the undergrowth, a river of controlled power.
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