The Last Lesson
The Last Lesson. The Last Lesson is the mentor's final gift, and they have been carrying it unused for thirty years. Once, and only once, they may take a wound meant for another and survive it. Any wound. Any blade, any fall, any spell aimed at a heart other than their own. The mentor will absorb it, and they will live. They do not know how they know this. They have simply known, since the night they walked out of the burning city, that one such intervention was owed to them by the world. They have been saving it. For the right student. For the right moment. For the one death they cannot otherwise prevent. The mentor is not certain the moment will ever come. They are certain that if it does, they will not hesitate.