[Why didn't you used your full power?]
'He seemed like a fun guy, so I didn't want him to get eliminated.'
[Huh, seriously?]
Kai didn't respond, just glanced over his shoulder and saw Corrin trailing behind him, hands behind his head, eyes glancing around, whistling.
'And he didn't used his full powers too.'
'And I don't know why, but I had the feeling, that he did.'
He turned his gaze forward.
'Then I would have been dead.'
******
The moon had barely risen, its silver glow filtering through the forest canopy, casting strange shadows across the moss-streaked stones and tangled underbrush.
The air was growing thick with miasma, curling like ghostly tendrils between the trees, and a subtle hum of energy pulsed at the heart of the trial ground.
And one by one, they arrived.
Cassian burst through the treeline, his chest heaving, his breath visible in the cool night air.
