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Arash must live to achieve his goal, but survival itself is the cruelest burden of all.
The world offers no sanctuary-it burns without mercy, devours the weak like kindling, and hammers the strong into new forms on its relentless anvil. Those who resist its transformations are shattered like brittle bone. Only those who surrender to the flames, who walk willingly into the inferno and allow it to reshape their very essence, emerge as something beyond human frailty.
Arash's inner fire must blaze hotter than the world's destruction if he hopes to conquer what lies ahead. He cannot fight the change that claws at him-it will break him as it has broken countless others. But if he embraces the agony, if he lets the fire consume everything weak within him, he will be forged into something greater than he ever imagined.
Suffering is not his curse-it is his forge, the sacred crucible where weakness dies and strength is born. Yet even this understanding carries its own weight, for to live, to continue walking this scorched earth when oblivion would be mercy, that is the true curse he must bear.
