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Luna stepped into his space and set a hand on his chest near the crack in the plate. Her eyes said things that were not for the others. He put his hand over her cheeks. Then she removed it and all the tension left her shoulders in one precise…
SIGH!
It was the first time she had seen Kai's apex transformation. She had many questions but she held them for now.
He walked her and Naaro back to the egg chamber. The line of the essence threads pulsed soft in the floor grooves like veins. The runes along the wall breathed a slow light. He stepped to the closest cradle and laid a hand on the silk barely touching the shells. They answered his palm with the almost sound of new things becoming.
He spoke without raising his voice. He did not speak to the eggs. He spoke to the mountain.
"Everything that comes here will either bend to this place or break against it."
The system's quiet knife of a voice arrived again.
