Chapter 31: Changing Tides – A Shift in Tavarin

In Tavarin, survival has never just been about strength — it’s about loyalty, perception, and knowing when to stand your ground.

In Chapter 31: Changing Tides, Nissa’s hard-earned progress finally begins to show — but with it comes new dangers she never could have predicted. Her training with Samuel, brutal as ever, finally edges toward something almost like friendship, though it’s laced with the ever-present reminder: in Tavarin, kindness can be a liability.

As Nissa’s reputation shifts from “betrayer” to something more complex, old enemies are watching — and they’re not happy. When a public confrontation explodes between the newly marked cadets and a handful of Firsts, Nissa finds herself standing on a precipice: loyalty to the old ways, or forging a new path altogether.

But trust is fragile here. And blood loyalty — the very thing Tavarin thrives on — demands a price.

Lines are drawn. Sides are chosen. And for the first time, Nissa isn’t standing alone.

Chapter 31 is about power earned, alliances tested, and the brutal cost of daring to change the future.

The tides are shifting. But Tavarin is not a place that forgives easily.

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