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Hidekazu
Hidekazu breathed in the earth and wind, letting his awareness ripple across the ground and through the air as he hurried in pursuit of Lacotl’s fading trail. His senses travelled up trees and into the vibrations beneath the earth’s crust, draining ki with each step.
He had no choice. Even with the shishajya spirit curled around his staff, drawing more energy alongside him, they were losing Lacotl’s trail, and fast.
The kan’thir might not have been as careful as before, but he was still erasing his movements as he went, turning them into after images that then sifted away as if they’d never been there at all.
A prickling sensation choked away the fresh breeze past the thickest part of the forest, clogging it with corruption so thick it became smog. Though Hidekazu was much
