In the spring, a plague came. Not the bloody flux or the shaking fever, but something new: a sleeping sickness. People would sit down to dinner and fall asleep mid-bite, their eyes open, their breath slow as winter. They did not wake. The village elders said it was a curse. Lasha knew it was a disease—something in the water, perhaps, or the air from the marshlands. But knowing did not matter. The people came to him anyway, carrying their sleeping children.
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Lasha was twelve when his mother, the healer Marekhi, died of a snakebite—a small thing, a viper she could have cured in a breath, had she not been alone. The villagers found her with her hand still reaching for the herbs by the door. Lasha stood over her, silent, and when he touched her cheek, the green light erupted from his fingers. Her wound closed. Her heart did not restart. But from that moment, the natlari burned in him like a forge. In the spring, a plague came