The Ashen Veil
The world reacts violently, the forest cracking under pressure as the thing splits apart, not gone, not destroyed, but fractured into pieces that can no longer hold themselves together, and I take the largest part of it into myself before it can reform.
It burns.
Not like fire.
Like something inside me rejecting what I’ve done.
I drop to my knees, the force ripping through me, tearing at everything I am, everything I was, everything I could become, and for a moment I think this is it, that this is where it ends.
But it doesn’t.
The pressure fades.
The world settles.
And when I lift my head, everything is still.
Too still.
The creatures are gone.
The fracture is gone.
The threat—
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