With a trance-like state enveloping him, Landon trembled with a mixture of relief and despair as he picked up his injured child. The boy's wide, gray eyes met his own, and a scream of pain escaped his lips. Landon's heart sank as he noticed the grotesque angle of the child's broken leg. Desperately, he attempted to harness the power of earth magic to heal the injury, but the remnants of his energy were insufficient. In a state of distress, he wrapped the child tightly in a blanket and hurried back to where his wife, Eirlys, lay motionless. Falling to his knees beside her, Landon whispered her name through tears as he held their child close to him. He vowed to raise the child in honor of Eirlys's sacrifice and to always remember her bravery. As he reached to take his wife's sword, Styxblade, from her hand, he noticed that the ice near the blade was etched with words. As he read them, the message hit him like a physical blow: "END THE CHILD."
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