Training begins.
Other Skyborn display their gifts:
Lyra bends sunlight. Torren summons tides from thin air. Velen pauses a falling cup mid-air.
Aeris?
Nothing.
Until—
Another trainee mocks him.
"Broken thing."
Aeris loses control.
Black wings burst out violently.
Shadows consume the arena.
For a moment—
The other Skyborn vanish.
Only darkness remains.
And whispers:
"You are the Door."
The shadows retreat.
Everyone is terrified.
Lyra is not.