Chapter 30 Chapter Thirty

• It was like Master Harond was asking for the impossible.
• Kael’s breath came slow and uncertain as he closed his eyes. The flickering candlelight in Master Harond’s chamber cast shadows across the stone walls. But here, in the stillness, Kael heard only the sound of his own heartbeat — steady, unsure, but present.
• “Focus on the space between your breaths,” Harond said quietly, pacing behind him. “That is where your Hakana lives.”