Star-Marked Resilience
Star-Marked Resilience. Star-Marked Resilience is written into the chosen's flesh. Wounds that would kill another close on them within the hour — steel through the lung, poison in the wine, the slow bleed of a winter spent on the run. The body knits itself back together with a speed that has no business belonging to a mortal frame. But the scars never fade. Every blade that has touched them, every burn, every arrow, every tooth, is recorded on their skin in pale silver lines that catch the light of certain moons. The chosen cannot hide what they are. Strangers read their history in their arms and neck and face. The scars are the prophecy made visible, and the chosen has stopped trying to explain them away.