00:00The breaking point was not a shout, but a whisper, a single, selfish request that shattered his
00:05world. Kale's life was a performance, his magical voice a tool for his family's ambition and his
00:11lover's social climbing. At the year's grandest gala, his uncle demanded he sing the song of
00:17subjugation, a complex, dangerous melody that could gently sway the will of the ruling council
00:22toward their family's business interests. It was a corruption of his gift, and Kale refused.
00:28The family turned on him. After all we've done for you, his uncle thundered.
00:35You ungrateful wretch. His cousin sneered, calling him selfish. But it was Alara's words that broke him.
00:43She took him aside, her voice cold. Do you not love me enough to do this?
00:49If you won't use your gift to secure our future, then what use is it? What use are you?
00:54The words, what use are you? echoed in the silent chamber of his soul.
00:59He looked at their faces, twisted by greed and disappointment, and felt the music within him
01:04curdle and die. A sharp, painful crack resonated in his chest, a sensation as real as a breaking bone.
01:12He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound emerged. Not a whisper. The magic that had been his life,
01:19his burden, and his identity was gone. He had not just been silenced, he had been severed.
01:26In the panic that followed, he simply walked out, his family too shocked by the loss of his power to
01:31even stop the now ordinary young man disappearing into the rain-soaked night.
01:35He current himself towards the haste's death.
01:45So I can only see him again. I believe that's this thing.
01:50I can simply see him again.
01:52Until then see him again.
01:53Then I take the scarη to sweat.
01:56So I can make his eyes die.
01:58So I have no choice.
02:00He'd boy talk the little baby out of your heart.
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