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Part 2 — The Unmaking When physical pain arrived it came without dignity. They led them to the forge of the mountain, where the rock bled heat and the anvil was a slab of bone-white quartz. Here, hands were bound and names were re-carved. Graia’s wrists chafed against cords braided from river reeds; the knots were tight enough to sting. The Master pressed a hot iron to the inner wrist of each initiate — not to scar, they said, but to write the new willingness. The hot press was an agreement signed in flesh: we will not return to who we were.