Chapter 24

Amerie flopped onto the snowy ground with a huff. Her muscles were sore from the long hour of training in the dark, but her power was still reeling to come out. It was endless. Simmering embers covered the moonlit ground of the clearing in orange specks. A small fire remained lit just inches from her right hand, the melted snow around it starting to turn to ice as the flames receded. Her aim and concentration had been true throughout the training, and the others bore small singe marks to prove it.

Celena had not held back in the training when Amerie visited her in the pool. While the expanse of her powers were still unknown, other abilities Amerie had yet to uncover had surfaced during the training. In this world she had only been asleep in the water for an hour. In Amerie’s reality, she had spent the majority of two days training with Celena without breaks. She needed to continue practicing to allow the powers to bloom into their full potential, but in the time she spent with the god