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Blood and Steel
The days began blending together.Wake up before sunrise.Run until your lungs burned.Train until your arms shook.Sleep for a few hours.Then repeat.Military life quickly became brutal routine.Kelvin sat quietly on his bunk one evening tightening the wraps around his bruised hands while recruits around him complained loudly about training.“My legs are finished,” Jace groaned from the bunk above him.“You said that yesterday,” Kailen replied while sharpening a practice dagger nearby.“And they somehow got worse.”Kelvin shook his head faintly.Despite the exhaustion, something had changed during the past several days.Training no longer overwhelmed him the way it did at first.His body adapted quickly.Too quickly.Bruises faded overnight.Muscle soreness disappeared faster than it should.Even his stamina recovered unnaturally fast.So Kelvin started pretending to struggle more during drills.Pretending to breathe harder. Pretending to tire faster.Because standing out inside mil
The Recruit Barracks
Sleep barely came at all.Kelvin lay awake on the narrow wooden bunk while the recruit barracks echoed endlessly around him.Snoring. Talking.Boots scraping against the floor.Someone laughing loudly near the far side of the room.Even breathing sounded unnaturally sharp to his ears.Kelvin shut his eyes tighter with a quiet sigh.“…Too loud.”A recruit somewhere nearby suddenly rolled over in bed, making the wooden frame creak.To everyone else, it probably sounded normal.To Kelvin, it sounded like the crack of a branch beside his head.His senses were improving again.Or worsening. He still did not know which.Kelvin turned slightly onto his side, trying to focus on only one sound at a time like he had practiced during the past four days.The wind outside. Just the wind.Slowly, the overwhelming noise faded enough for him to finally relax.Not fully but enough.At some point during the night, exhaustion finally dragged him into sleep.CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!Kelvin’s eyes snapped ope
A Place to Stay
The castle halls felt strangely quiet.Kelvin walked beside Diana through long corridors lined with silver banners and polished stone walls while guards and servants moved calmly around them. Soft light spilled through tall windows, reflecting across the marble floor beneath their feet. Everything looked too clean. Too untouched.After days in the forest, it almost felt unreal.Kelvin’s eyes moved carefully around the castle as they walked.Paintings hung along the walls beside old suits of armor and carved statues of former rulers. Servants bowed respectfully as Diana passed, though many of them briefly glanced toward Kelvin with visible curiosity before lowering their heads again. The silver hair probably wasn’t helping.Kelvin resisted the urge to pull his hood higher.Ahead of them, large wooden doors slowly opened.“The royal hall,” one of the guards announced.Kelvin stepped inside beside Diana.The room was enormous. Tall pillars stretched toward the ceiling while silver chand
The City of Eldhaven
Morning sunlight spilled softly across the northern roads as Kelvin and Diana continued their journey toward Eldhaven.The forest behind them had finally begun to thin. What once felt like endless wilderness slowly gave way to signs of life. Dirt roads widened beneath the horses’ hooves. Wooden fences stretched across open fields. Small farms appeared in the distance alongside patches of crops swaying gently beneath the cold breeze.Kelvin looked around quietly as they rode.People. Not just travelers. Actual communities. Small villages appeared every few hours along the roadside, each carrying the silver-and-blue banners of Eldhaven above wooden gates or market posts.Compared to Ashvale, everything felt larger.Busier. More connected.Kelvin watched a group of farmers loading supplies onto a wagon while children ran nearby laughing without worry. The sight felt strangely distant to him.Normal.Part of him still expected screams and fire whenever he saw too many people gathered toge
Names Unspoken
The clearing slowly fell silent after the last bandit disappeared into the forest.Only the restless sounds of horses and heavy breathing remained.Kelvin lowered his damaged sword carefully, his chest rising and falling hard.“Hah…”Now that the fighting had stopped, the exhaustion hit him properly.Pain spread through his arms and shoulders from every clash during the battle. Beneath his torn clothes, the wounds from the direwolf fight still burned faintly, though he could already feel that strange warmth moving through his body again.Healing. Slowly.Kelvin frowned slightly at the thought before pushing it aside.Not now.A few steps away, the girl still held her sword tightly.Her breathing was uneven too.A cut ran along one side of her arm, and dirt stained parts of her light traveling clothes. Even exhausted, however, she still carried herself steadily.Not once during the fight had she panicked.Kelvin noticed that immediately.The girl finally lowered her sword slightly, tho
The Girl in the Forest
The soft warmth of the fire had long faded by the time Kelvin opened his eyes again.For a moment, he simply stared upward at the thick forest canopy above him while the cold morning air brushed against his face.Then everything returned.The direwolf. The fight. The cubs.Kelvin groaned softly and pushed himself upright against the tree.“Hah…”His body still hurt, but not as badly as it should have. That alone felt wrong.The wounds across his shoulder and side had already partially healed overnight. The pain remained, but compared to yesterday, the difference was impossible to ignore.Kelvin lowered his gaze toward his arm silently.“What… am I becoming?”No answer came.Only the quiet sounds of the forest.Birds.Wind moving through leaves.Distant movement far away.Too distant.Kelvin frowned slightly.Even now, he could hear things far beyond what should have been possible.His senses still felt strange. Unnatural.At times it almost felt overwhelming, like his body was constan
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