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The air crackled with a potent force, like a storm brewing in the distance. A faint hint of the iron tinge of sweat and blood threaded through, a reminder of past battles and victories.
Sana’a breathed in the sharpness and inhaled the electric energy, eager to enter the battle arena.
Silence fell as K?stian announced that the Golden Songbird was opening the evening.
The declaration led to more clamouring in the stands.
‘You’ll want to see and hear this,’ Kaniz gestured Sana’a to the tunnel’s edge. They positioned themselves for a good view of the arena.
A creature of lavish magnificence floated onto the raised platform.
Its body was shimmering gold, reflecting the sunlight and creating an ethereal glow.
The graceful half-transmuted being sported long gilded wings that stretched out from its back and elegant talons for feet.
It stood tall and majestic, its feathers glimmering in the sunlight with a molten iridescence and covered with intricate íkan patterns that swirled in gentle pulses.
Its glittering krest, half of which masked its eyes and identity, shone in a halo.
With a raise of its golden rachís, it launched into song.
One so enchanting, it echoed with melancholy off the city walls and resonated in every soul.
Its voice was a fusion of human and bird-like symphonies and lustrous notes. Their performance included a violin-like trilling produced not by its avifauna vocal anatomy but by the vibration of the unique quills on their wings.
The words it sang captured Sana’a’s imagination, unlike anything that had ever teased her lobes.
‘The Kä’avi get restless
For a radiant win,
A bout so brilliant
It reflects stars and moon:
As warriors battle in star-sun’s heat
Greetings, crowds of people.
Greetings, ladies.
Greetings, handsome gents,
sons of olden heroes,
Who showed no fear of death,
Who crossed mountains and seas
Braced with Sab?r and sword,
Who bounded over the ocean.
Who met in battle
Warriors dropped on both sides,
Rise, great k?thi
