If she took this so easily… should I give her another?
I hesitated, but only for a moment.
"Zarah," I said, watching her closely, "I'm thinking of sharing another skill line with you. Do you think you can take it?"
"Skill line?" she repeated, confusion flickering across her face.
Right. She wouldn't know that term. None of them did.
I corrected myself quickly."A blessing… like the one you just received."
The effect was immediate.
Zarah dropped to her knees so fast it caught me off guard. Her back stayed straight, her head bowed slightly, her expression sharpened with a seriousness more intense than I had ever seen from her.
And in that moment, with the wind brushing past us and the clan quiet around us, I realized she wasn't just accepting power — she was placing her trust in me without reservation, ready to shoulder whatever came next simply because I asked it of her.
That was all the push I needed.
