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Author: Lavender Pen
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DANIKA

Dad opens what looks like a folder, placing it on his lap. Papers spill out, including photographs, sketches, symbols, and old notes. There are stuff that look too dark to have been inside our home. He picks up the first page with shaking fingers.

"She started the moment you turned eight."

My stomach drops.

He turns a page towards me. It looks like a medical chart, but it also looks wrong. There are energy readings, weird symbols, and curves that look like sound waves on graphs.

"She called it your core signature," Dad says. "She logged every fever, every nightmare, every time you said you 'felt weird' or had headaches or saw lights. I didn't understand what it meant then."

He wipes his face with both hands, ashamed.

"She wasn't caring for you, Danika. She was tracking you."

A coldness seeps into my bones, and Kaziel's grip on my hand tightens. Dad pulls out another sheet, filled with Ember's handwriting.

"She wrote... that you were 'ripening.' That your power would stabili
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    DANIKA The tassel brushes my cheek when I turn my head, and that's when it hits me. I did it. My vision blurs as the applause swells around me, sunlight flashing off our gowns and proud smiles. My graduation day. I press my lips together hard, fighting tears that refuse to behave.Five years of exhaustion and second chances and sheer, stubborn refusal to quit."...—and no, that wasn't a metaphor. I actually repeated freshman year."Laughter ripples through the crowd, and I pause on purpose, letting it land.Tyler whoops loudly from two rows back until my foster dad elbows him in the ribs. Cora has both hands clasped in front of her face, already crying. Bellamy gives me an exaggerated thumbs-up like I'm on a game show.I grin and turn back to the mic."Some of you are sitting here today thinking, Wow, she must have had it all figured out." I shake my head. "I didn't. I just had an unreasonable amount of spite."More laughter."I repeated freshman year because life happened. Beca

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    KAZIEL The corridor is colder than I remember. My boots echo softly against the floor as Kira walks a step ahead, her pace steady. She hasn't looked back once."Down here," she says. I follow.The holding level smells like iron and salt. Wards hum faintly in the walls, their magic old and layered. We walk in silence for a while before Kira finally speaks."When you didn't regain consciousness," she says, "we knew something was wrong. Your core should've reignited."My jaw tightens."But it didn't," she continues. "It was just... gone. There was no echo or resonance."I stop walking. She slows down too, then she turns slightly so she's facing the wall instead of me, as if she can't quite bear to look into my eyes yet."We hoped anyway," she says. "We froze your body. We told ourselves you'd done this before and that you always came back."My chest aches as I listen to her."For months," she adds. "We waited."I swallow hard, my fists clenched. She begins to move again, and I k

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    KAZIEL (The Hollow) When I awoke inside his body, every memory rushed in at once. The smell of dust and blood in that basement. The crack of bone. His mother's voice. His affection for her. His prayers. His hatred.For ten days after the transfer, I could not heal.I didn't understand why at first. I tried again and again to knit broken skin, close the wounds and stop the bleeding. Nothing responded. His body rejected my nature. Magic slid off him like water over stone. I felt everything. Every blade. Every strike. Every violation.I learned pain in those ten days.Real pain.When healing finally came, it came imperfectly. And it left scars behind. I learned then that this body would never obey me fully. It would demand effort.Humanity was not given. It had to be studied.So I learned.I learned how to walk without drawing attention. How to breathe when I was anxious. How to speak without sounding like an animal. How to smile without baring my teeth.I learned how to be ‘norma

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    DANIKA "Focus on your core," Kira commands, her voicesteady. My hands tremble as I press my palm to my chest. My heart is hammering so hard it feels like it's trying to free itself. I reach inward, taking a deep breath.At first, there's nothing but heat. A familiar warmth. Then it deepens and spreads in my chest."Good," Kira says softly. "That's it. Now hum. Don't force it. Let the vessel speak."I draw in a shaky breath and part my lips.The sound that slips out is soft at first. Barely more than a breath. It vibrates in my throat, unfamiliar and wrong, as if my body remembers a language my mind never learned.I gasp, my knees buckling, and suddenly I'm not there anymore.I see him.A ten-year-old boy with his wrists bound in a basement that smells like blood. His face is bruised, blood is crusted at his lip, and his eyes are too old for his small body. He's moaning in agony, his back arching as he bleeds out on the dirty floor."No," I sob, my tears rolling down. "No—plea

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    DANIKA Kira moves without warning. She grabs my arm to shove me behind her just in time for the door to jerk open. And then I see him.My father.He looks... ordinary. I expected him to look more like the devil. Possibly with two horns growing from his forehead. But even his head has gone bald, with slight wrinkles on his face. Horrible taste in fashion too. What's with those ugly red boots?There's not a shred of recognition on his face. Because to him, I'm not a daughter. I'm a resource."Well," he says, his gaze sliding past Kira and locking onto me. His mouth curves. "There you are, baby girl.""Don't call me that," I snarl. "You didn't raise me."His brow lifts, his eyes swimming with amusement. "My, my, look who inherited her mother's temper."I bare my teeth. "You tortured my mate.""Oh, him?" he says, glancing towards Kaziel like he's nothing more than furniture. "Necessary inconvenience."Kira growls. My father doesn't even look at her when he moves. With only one bli

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