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The path ahead twists like a serpent’s spine, jagged stones studded with iron teeth looming in the haze. Every step risks a sacrifice—blood for progress, strength for survival. But she waits beyond the gauntlet, her name a heartbeat in his ribs, her voice the wind that carves his resolve into something sharper than the blades beneath his feet. The first obstacle rises, a sphere of pitted rock crowned with spines that glow faintly, pulsing as though alive. He doesn’t hesitate. Muscles coil, tendons scream—he leaps, the air itself tearing at his clothes, and for a heartbeat, he’s weightless. Then the stone’s edge grazes his calf, hot pain searing up his leg as vitality drains like sand through clenched fingers. He stumbles on impact, knees buckling, but her laughter echoes in his skull, bright and desperate. *Again.* The next platform shudders underfoot, another stone rolling toward him, faster now, spikes glinting with a hunger that mirrors his own. He runs *toward* it, breath ragged, because retreat is death—because she’s close, so close he can taste salt on his tongue, smell jasmine in the acid burn of his lungs. This time, he vaults higher, spins midair, the world tilting as his hand brushes a spike. Agony lances through his palm, but he lands upright, bloodied and grinning. Something shifts in his marrow, a crackle of lightning where bone meets sinew. Her face flares behind his eyelids—not a memory, a *command*. The stones come faster, larger, their spikes now serrated, dripping rust-red venom. He doesn’t falter. Each wound etches her name deeper into his flesh; each drop of strength lost is replaced by something hotter, wilder, a crescendo building in his throat. By the fifth leap, his blood steams where it hits the rock. By the eighth, his shadow stretches long and jagged against the setting sun, limbs elongating, feet barely touching stone before he’s airborne again. When the final obstacle erupts—a colossus of grinding gears and thrashing metal teeth—he doesn’t leap. He *unfurls*. Fingers hook into claws, tendons whipcord-tight, and the roar that tears free isn’t human. The spikes shatter against him. The stone cracks like an egg. And there, beyond the rubble, she stands—not smiling, not weeping, but *alight*, her eyes reflecting the thing he’s become: not a man, not a myth, but a force that bent the trial’s spine until it broke.
