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In seconds, the village stirred. Not with panic, but with eerie precision. Lanterns were doused. Children were guided through hidden trapdoors beneath kitchen floors. The elders gathered at the shrine not to flee, but to defend.

Veth fought her way to the Seed, determined. She grabbed it. bunawar the raid

For generations, the Seed had rested in the Shrine of Echoes, a moss-covered stone structure at the village’s center. It drew no attention from the outside world—until the Warlord Tala of the Ash Coast learned of it. Tala believed the Seed could forge him an immortal army. He sent his elite unit, the Silent Serpents, to take Bunawar by night. In seconds, the village stirred

As her hand reached for the relic, the ground trembled. From the earth around the shrine rose the roots of the banyan trees—ancient, gnarled, and alive with purpose. They moved not like plants, but like limbs. The Seed’s light flared, and the roots obeyed. She grabbed it

The Serpent commander, a woman named Veth, smiled. “They’ve abandoned it. Take the Seed.”

By dawn, the raid was over. Half the Serpents lay unconscious, tangled in root and vine. The rest had fled into the jungle, pursued only by their own fear. Veth was found sitting beneath the banyan tree, weeping. The Seed had not destroyed her; it had unmade her cruelty. She would spend the rest of her days as a gardener in Bunawar, planting rice and learning the names of flowers.