Chapter 1. Kaelen — The Fire-Tongued (Origin)

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When a star dies, it does not vanish in silence but screams across the heavens, falling in a fire-kiss upon the waiting earth. Kaelen’s star did not fall into ocean or forest but into a country of heat — where black glass dunes met a mountain’s red heart. The night split; the earth answered; slag ran like rivers and cooled into mirrors. When the sparks settled, they studded the ash like embers of carnelian. One ember did not dim. It listened.