Ky uses fire to drive mutant back

Jo’s terror peaks at the first sight of a mutated Solonian cowering under the firestorm’s glow. Ky must act instantly to protect them both, revealing that the creatures were once his own people twisted by the Marshal’s experiments into something monstrous. His fire does more than repel the mutant—it forces a horrified confrontation between what these beings once were and what they’ve become under Overlord rule, deepening the moral cost of survival on a planet where nature itself has turned against its people. key_dialogue: [ JO: I thought you said they were harmless. KY: I don't understand it. Perhaps it's the firestorm. Usually they run away. It'll be safer further back in the cave. ]