Unadorned

Crack.
Light splits the gloom.
Crystal—splintered.

The entity within
slips from its prison
and glides out of the cave.

It flies over two battlefields.
This war is won.

The Unadorned will find its new home here—
behind the quartz walls.

It must be swift.
A Rath is coming.
They see all.

There—unconscious on the floor.
Warm inside.
Power inside.
Hidden inside.

A name will become inside.

Fates Woven in Legacy and Battle.

The Unadorned

Not yet named.
Not yet claimed.
It carries power unshaped by lineage or legacy.
Its home is not chosen—it is found.
Its danger lies not in what it does,
but in what it might become.

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