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  5. Roots and Fire: Power Demands a Price, and the World Begins to Burn

Roots and Fire: Power Demands a Price, and the World Begins to Burn E-BOOK

Crown of the Phoenix, #2

Seraphe Lynwood
E-book | Engels | Crown of the Phoenix
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The forest does not answer prayers.
It answers balance.

When Aurelia Vaelthorne carries fire into a land already breaking under its own weight, she learns that power is never neutral, and healing is never free. The world accepts restoration only through exchange, and every exchange leaves something behind—warmth turning heavy, breath turning counted, silence turning permanent.

In this second volume, the forest breathes again, but not in gratitude. Growth returns without celebration, roots tighten without warning, and the price of delay reveals itself not as punishment, but as inevitability. Life is not taken all at once; it is drawn slowly, steadily, until the body understands what the mind still refuses to name.

Aurelia walks forward with restraint rather than hope, carrying elemental hearts that do not obey intention, only function. Fire watches without comfort. Wood gives without mercy. The world does not thank those who stabilize it, nor does it pause to acknowledge loss. It continues, breathing through absence as easily as it once breathed through life.

Around her, companions weaken, silence deepens, and the meaning of choice sharpens into something colder: not every decision creates options, and not choosing is still an act the world will charge for. What is saved does not resemble what was lost, and what remains is not lighter for having survived.

This is a story about sacrifice without spectacle, about power that presses instead of liberates, and about love that does not stop the arithmetic of balance. Death here is not sudden, but intimate; grief does not explode, it settles. The forest lives again, but something essential does not return with it.

Written in restrained, lyrical prose, this volume explores the aftermath of restoration—the quiet cost of success, the weight of what cannot be undone, and the slow realization that the final gate has already begun to open.

For readers drawn to dark fantasy, elemental magic, and stories where salvation is heavy, silence is meaningful, and the world never promises to be kind.

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Productcode (EAN):
9798233474934
Verschijningsdatum:
28/12/2025
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E-book
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ePub
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