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Return of the Exiled flame
Author: YATES
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The skies above the Academy of the Seven Towers boiled red with unnatural heat. Rumors had turned into tremors, and the tremors into thunder. And Rey Soren—no, Rayden Drakar—stood alone in the center of the Stone Arena, his shadow swallowed by the flames swirling around him.

"So this is the boy who thinks himself a dragon," scoffed Kade Vorn from the other end of the dueling ground, golden armor glinting under the firelight. The academy courtyard had never seen such a crowd—instructors, students, spies, even silent agents of the Council hidden behind enchanted masks.

Rey didn't reply. The wind around him crackled with embers. His breath tasted of smoke. He looked down at the hilt of Emberclaw, the relic sword now fully awakened, and then at the sea of faces surrounding him.

He could still hear Juno's broken voice from the night before:

"Your blood burns brighter than ever. But light is a declaration, Rayden. The brighter you burn, the more shadows you'll call."

A choice had been made.
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