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The updraft hit them like a physical blow. Lyra felt the immense strain on her back, her wings singing high-pitched, vibrating notes as the wind rushed past the hard edges. They didn't flap; they glided vertically, a perfect harmony of feather and crystal, light and heavy.

Lyra rushed to him. Ignoring the spreading fractures in her own wing, she leveraged the immense, heavy weight of her crystal appendages to pry the slab off his pinned legs. With all her might, she heaved. The stone shifted, and Kaelen dragged himself free. Alas de Cristal - Carol S. Brown.epub

"Lyra?" Kaelen gasped, coughing in the rising fog. He was trapped under a heavy slab of obsidian. The updraft hit them like a physical blow

Lyra ignored them. She unfurled her crystal wings. They felt heavy, a burden she had carried her entire life. But as she stared into the chasm, she realized something. The feathers of the others caught the wind like sails, making them helpless against the violent, swirling drafts. Her wings had no surface area to catch the wind—the air would pass right through the gaps of the crystal lattices, and the weight would give her the ballast she needed to drop straight through the storm. She didn't jump to fly. She jumped to fall. Lyra rushed to him

"Too fragile for this world," the Elders would whisper as she walked by, her heavy wings chime-clicking softly like a thousand tiny chandeliers.

The Elders stood in stunned silence. They realized that what they had deemed too fragile was, in fact, the only thing strong enough to survive the storm. Lyra was no longer the flightless girl of the caverns. She was the Guardian of the Rift, the woman with the unbreakable wings of crystal.