Sep 07, 2026
That was excellently done, the subversion of expectations (I expected Felix to follow trough with his plan to leave and face Crow allow); him realizing that it would have been the wrong move and Crow showing up early and exactly then.
The threat to Kite also feels very real, you wrote it in a way so that she could either survive or die either seems possible. Felix probably is using his healing magic on her even during the fall, rather than fighting Crow which might come back to bite him.
The cliffhanger is excellent as well.
The one "complaint" I have, and it is a soft one, is that the magic feels very intransparent despite being near the end of the story. I still don't know how Crow's magic works or how much healing magic can do. The spirit sentries also feel new. It is a valid choice for a soft magic system but it nags at me just a little bit.