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The Tlalim's wings cut through the mist like pale blades, each beat a thunderclap against the frozen silence. Beneath them, the Hweth'ik lands sprawled in endless white—spires of ice catching the last light of a dying sun, bioluminescent veins pulsing softly under a crust of snow. Ronal felt the cold seep through her skin, a ghost of the warmth they had left behind. She kept one hand pressed to her belly, the other locked around Tonowari's waist, as the great beast descended. The wind howled, whipping her braids against her cheeks, but she did not flinch. When the Tlalim's claws scraped the frozen plateau, she dismounted with the grace of someone who had never known defeat. Tonowari stepped forward, his spear grounded, his voice low and steady. "We come not as warriors… but as those w…