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Valda intercepts a Volcai trespasser burning his way through an Aria pass and does the only sensible thing: she puts him in irons and drags him toward the nearest outpost. Kano calls it an insult. Valda calls it security. The mountains call it weather.
Days of forced travel turn arguments into patterns, patterns into focus, and focus into something that won’t stop tightening. When the storm traps them in stone, all that restraint has to go somewhere—and neither of them is inclined to be gentle about it.