Her breath came out as little puffs of steam, and seemed to hang in the air for a moment. As she climbed, Bali thought back to the reason she was here; the issue which was affecting her life so deeply, it would give her cause to leave everything behind in the hope of finding a solution.
She had been chaos-marked from birth, and with it came the standard issues. Not just the stigma, not just the exasperation from everyone who thought she should just control herself; the influence of the chaos markings affected her more deeply than that.
Bali paused a moment to catch her breath and look down over the winding path below; she dared not to tarry too long, lest her chaos awaken.
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