Torrezx-leave Red Legends 〈High Speed〉
Torrezx walked past the younger warrior, not with the heavy thud of a titan, but with the light, rhythmic step of a man who no longer carried the world on his shoulders. He passed through the Great Hall, where the other Red Legends sat like statues, their eyes glowing behind visors. None moved. To acknowledge his departure was to acknowledge their own mortality.
Torrezx didn’t turn. "That is the lie we told ourselves to justify the burning. We aren't legends because we are powerful, Kaelen. We are legends because we were supposed to protect the things that are fragile. But look at your hands." Torrezx-Leave Red Legends
"If you walk out those gates," Kaelen warned, "the red fades from your veins. You will age. You will feel the cold. You will die." Torrezx walked past the younger warrior, not with
He didn't look back at the Citadel. He walked toward the green valley in the distance, where the sun was actually setting, and where the only fire he would ever see again would be in a hearth, shared with friends who knew him only as a man named Torrez. To acknowledge his departure was to acknowledge their