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The chamber entrance loomed before them,a massive archway carved into the living rock, easily twenty feet tall and half that wide. Through the opening, they could see the flickering light of flames, could feel the waves of heat rolling out and could hear something massive breathing in the darkness beyond.Cassian held up a fist, signaling the team to halt. They stopped immediately, pressing against the tunnel walls, weapons ready but not yet manifesting their full combat flames."Garrett." Cassian whispered, barely audible. "What do you think?"The massive warrior crept forward until he could peer around the edge of the archway without exposing himself fully. He studied the chamber for long seconds, his experienced eyes taking in every detail,the layout, the positioning of the pedestal, the location of the boss beast.Finally, he pulled back and returned to the group. When he spoke, his voice was as quiet as Cassian's had been. "It's exactly as Marcus and Sera described. The beast
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Kira immediately stepped forward, moving with the kind of purposeful efficiency that marked her as someone who'd done this a thousand times before. Her hands began to glow with a soft, warm light,not the aggressive orange-red of combat flames, but a gentle golden color that pulsed with soothing energy."Sit down." She told Sera, her voice leaving no room for argument despite its gentleness. "You can be as brave as you want, but you're not walking into a boss fight with that leg in its current state. Give me two minutes."Sera nodded and lowered herself back to the ground, this time by choice rather than from weakness. She extended her injured leg, and Kira knelt beside her, placing both glowing hands on either side of the wound.The healing flame technique was different from regular fire manipulation. Where combat flames were destroyed and burned, healing flames knitted and restored. It required a completely different mindset, a level of control and precision that most flame wielder
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He looked at Marcus first,exhausted, some minor injuries, but still standing and functional. Then at Sera,a leg injury that would slow her down but probably wouldn't prevent her from fighting if absolutely necessary. Then at the others,Garrett is still strong and ready, Lyra maintaining her illusions despite the obvious strain, Diana with her precision blades ready to deploy.And Kira, standing calm and collected, waiting for his decision.Finally, Cassian's eyes came back to rest on Marcus and Sera. He walked toward them slowly, deliberately, and both of them tensed,but this time he wasn't radiating anger. His expression had settled into something more controlled, more focused.When he reached them, he looked down at both of the younger warriors with an intensity that made them want to squirm. Then he asked a question that was simple but carried enormous weight."Are you guys flamed up enough to continue with us?"The question hung in the air. He wasn't asking if they were completely
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Her voice was low, calm, carrying none of the heat or fury that had been saturating the tunnel moments before. "Breathe."It wasn't a suggestion. It was an order, delivered with the quiet confidence of someone who knew she would be obeyed.For a long moment, Cassian just stared at her, his chest heaving with angry breaths, flames still flickering along his arms. Then, slowly, the fire began to die down. The tension in his shoulders eased fractionally. His jaw was unclenched enough that he could probably speak without grinding his teeth.He took a deep breath,in through his nose, out through his mouth,then another. The flames extinguished completely, and some of the wild, desperate quality left his eyes.Kira waited until she was sure he'd regained control, then let her hand drop from his shoulder. She turned to face Marcus and Sera, and her expression remained calm, professional, but not unkind."Marcus. Sera." Her voice carried that same low, soothing quality. "Did you find the R
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Cassian's face went through a rapid transformation. The worry and concern that had been there moments ago,the relief at finding Marcus and Sera alive,drained away like water through a sieve. What replaced it was something darker, something that made the air around him seem to heat up noticeably.His jaw clenched so tight that the muscles stood out in sharp relief. His eyes, which had been scanning his teammates for injuries, went hard and cold. His hands, still wreathed in the fading remnants of his flame attack, clenched into fists so tight his knuckles went white."No?" The word came out quiet, almost a whisper, but it carried more threat than a shout would have. "No? You didn't find it?"Then the anger exploded."NO?!"His fist shot out and slammed into the dungeon wall with a force that sent cracks spiderwebbing through the stone. The impact echoed through the tunnel like a gunshot, and chips of rock scattered across the floor. His knuckles split open from the force of the blow,
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Marcus,the young man who'd been holding the flame torch earlier,had extinguished it minutes ago when they'd heard the beasts getting closer. Now they sat in complete darkness, relying on sound and feeling alone to tell them where the danger was.Sera was pressed against his side, her injured leg stretched out at an awkward angle that had to be painful but that she couldn't adjust without making noise. Her hands gripped Marcus's arm so tightly he could feel her nails digging into his skin through his sleeve, but he didn't complain. The pain kept him focused, kept him from spiraling into panic.They'd been running for what felt like hours but was probably only minutes. When the flame beasts had finally caught up to them in that tunnel, when death had seemed inevitable, Lyra had saved them.Lyra was the team's specialist,a rare flame wielder whose ability wasn't about generating heat or creating fire for destruction. Her flames were about illusion, about manipulation of light and percept
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