A crystalline tower of ice pierced the clouds.
Within it stood a regal figure of frost and shadow.
"I am Elyndra. Sixth."
Her voice was calm, distant.
Where she walked, entire armies froze solid.
No screams.
No fire.
Just stillness.
Kaito stepped into the blizzard alone.
"You are close to completion," she observed.
"And you are close to extinction."
Elyndra raised a delicate hand.
The temperature plummeted instantly.
"Let us see," she said softly, "if stillness can stop evolution."