At seventeen, Kael saved a village from bandits.

  He did not kill them. He only stopped them. But when the villagers saw how easily he overpowered dozens of men, the whispers returned.

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  “What if he turns against us?”

  “If he can defeat them so easily, how could we ever stop him?”

  Kael smiled, pretending not to hear.

  But something in him cracked.