The fourth training session with Nihil almost killed Mira Kasun.
Not through malice. Not through negligence. Through the particular cruelty of a body that contained more power than its architecture could hold — a fire core that burned too hot in a vessel that hadn't been built for the temperature.
It happened at minute forty-three of the group exercise. Veylan had designed a coordinated scenario: Liora, Draven, and Caelen as the assault team, Theron as the mobile barrier, Elara and Kira as detection, Nyx as the disruption element. Mira was the ranged support — channeling fire from behind Theron's earth walls to provide covering attacks while the assault team engaged my Nihil-amplified combat output.
Standard formation. Practiced seven times. Effective.
On the eighth iteration, Mira's fire didn't stop.
