-ALEXANDER-
My power flowed into her, a desperate torrent of life. I felt the connection, the subtle tremor in her small body, the slight deepening of her breath. Hope, sharp and agonizing, had pierced through the thick fog of my fear. "She's stabilizing, Alpha King!" Master Borin's voice, laced with relief, had echoed my own desperate wish.
But the relief was fleeting, brutally short-lived.
My vision, narrowed by concentration, was fixed on Lilian's face. The faint color that had begun to bloom on her lips, the subtle hint of warmth returning to her skin—it vanished. Her breathing, which had deepened, suddenly became shallow again, more strained than before. A weak, painful cough rattled her chest, and a tiny trickle of blood, dark and alarming, appeared at the corner of her mouth.
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