There's no going back. Aden had a plan, but the moment he met Kira, his life changed forever. The Only Way Forward is the song of the duel — of the confrontation that was always coming, of the love that was never going to survive being seen.
The track is sharper than the others, less forgiving. This is the music of resolution by force, and of the cost of true honor while others hide their schemes. Fate drives the story to an impossible conclusion. Present and future, time wears a mask: the only way forward is into the past.
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‘The Only Way Forward’ by Jef Gray — a brutal duel erupts as Aden and Barra fight to the death over the fae princess Kira, who has already given her heart to Aden. Driven by vengeance masquerading as honor, the battle descends into bloodshed reconciled as justice. Yet Aden proves far from helpless, mortally wounding Barra and exposing a deeper truth within the Law of Exchange: a life for a life can still change the verdict. The duel was never what it seemed, and the sentence is death… unless time wears a mask.