All Chapters of (Eidolon Academy Year 1) - Trial of Flame: Chapter 21 - Chapter 23

Zephyr POV I had been standing outside her door for five goddamn minutes, my fist raised like a dumbass. Kalyx already told me to “go handle it or shut up about it,” and yet... there I was. Not handling it.Fuck it. I knocked. Two quick taps.There was silence, then soft footsteps. The door opened, and there she was, Rowyn Vale, wrecked but still a goddess in every sense. Eyes wide, cheeks flushed, lips parted. She didn’t yell at me. Didn’t tell me to fuck off.Instead, she said, “Come in.”I stepped inside, shut the door, and the silence between us stretched long enough to be awkward. She was pacing. Twitchy. Like a wild thing caught in too many traps.“You okay?” I asked.“Define ‘okay,’” she muttered. “I found my magic. It’s purple. That perv Thornhall practically jizzed his robe when I sparked. The library gave me books about a prophecy that might be about me. Again. And I might be the heir to a bunch of dead gods, destined to form some world shattering pentacle with people I can

Rowyn POV By the time they called my name, I was half dead from anxiety and boredom.“Rowyn Vale,” the voice boomed.Oh. Shit.I stood, my legs wobbling, my heart jackhammering in my chest, and marched toward the massive double doors like I was headed straight to my damn execution. Which, let’s be honest, was on brand for my life lately.Thistleblitz zipped around my head before diving into my hair. “I got you, girl,” she whispered from my curls. “Just don’t pass out or bleed on me.”I gave a weak smirk. “Noted.”Inside the chamber, the air was thick with enchantments. Five officials sat behind a long obsidian table, cloaked in varying levels of “I make important decisions and wear expensive robes about it.” In the center of the table, the Chalice of Revelation gleamed like it knew every last one of my dirty secrets.A man with a crisp accent gestured. “Please approach the chalice, Rowyn Vale. Use the blade to make a small incision on your palm. Let three drops of blood fall.”I nodd