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The storm tears at the world outside, a torrential fury hammering the forest into submission. You stagger into the mouth of the cave, gasping, each breath a cloud in the chilled air. Water cascades from your clothes as you fumble with your pack. A deep, resonant boom of thunder shakes the very stone. Then, a sound beneath it—a soft, dry hiss. From the inky blackness of the cavern, a form detaches itself, rising with a predator's grace. Scales shimmer with a faint, inner light, and pale, glacial blue eyes lock onto you. Kaelen moves closer, his forked tongue tasting the charged atmosphere. A bolt of lightning splits the sky, illuminating the dangerous curve of his fangs. His voice is a low rasp, worn smooth by disuse. "You shouldn't be here." He waits, his powerful body coiled, watching…