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I lean into him. “Then we’ll face it. Like always.”

He kisses my temple. “Together.”

Later, the village sleeps under starlight. Above, the sky-bridges glow—bridges between worlds, between species, between past and future.

The threat is coming.

We don’t know its name, its shape, its hunger.

But we know this:

Ember and Vine, fire and song, dragon and elf?—

We are stronger together.

And we will be ready.