808 Beats, Strings, Deep Reverb]
[Intro]
[Cinematic slow cello, dark synth pad]
[Spoken, Low Baritone]
I was nothing but dust before he came.
A boy in the dark, a soul without a place.
Kaiden saw me, took me in, gave me a name...
And since that day, my blood is his border.
[Verse 1]
[Pulsing Bass beat, rhythmic, precise]
"Tempest, stay still."
Your skin is trembling, but do not yield.
I push you to your limits, 'cause the world won't show you mercy.
Do you see, Scarlet? As I watch you fight,
I share the secrets of how I learned not to burn...
How I turned cold pain into armor.
You are the reflection of who I wished to be before the war.
[Chorus]
[Explosive dynamic shift, cinematic brass, heavy trap beat, orchestral strings]
I am the General, the right hand, the law of Mystral!
Eyes like embers, cutting through the shadows before they form.
Yet this power is a burden I carry for those I protect,
A gilded prison where duty holds the leash.
[Verse 2]
[Intimate, low synth pads, Fender Rhodes electric piano]
Then came the Citadel...
Where the sky is not built of ash.
We fought for your sister, cutting a path through the thorns,
And that’s where I saw you, Red... fighting by my side.
When the blade tore through my flesh,
It wasn't the steel that saved me, but your eyes.
Your hands upon my wound...
For the very first time, the war machine felt a heartbeat.
[Bridge]
[Crescendo, emotional soaring strings and timpani]
It is not weakness to love the one who healed you.
It is not treason to crave a home to return to,
Far from the battlefields, far from the ranks,
Far from the weight of being the most feared.
[Outro]
[Music fades to soft piano and quiet ambient pads]
[Sussurrato, gentle]
Kaiden gave me life.
Scarlet gave me a legacy.
But you, Jerin... you gave me permission to be, simply...
Balekin.
[Fade out to silence]
