Luna of the Lost Bloodline
I watched, breath locked in my lungs, as the annihilating column of godfire twisted sideways like light passing through water, redirecting in a slow, impossible arc before slamming harmlessly into the horizon miles away.
The impact bloomed like a silent sunrise.
Everything shook.
Kael staggered but didn’t fall. I felt the strain rip through him, through me, through the fragile bridge we had become.
The childlike voice trembled.
I didn’t mean to.
“It’s okay,” I said quickly, even as blood ran from my nose. “You’re learning.”
Above us, the gods recoiled.
Not in fear.
In recalculation.
It interferes with causality, the Second God observed, its tone no longer furious but clinical.
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