Zane’s POVThe moment Valkyra’s feet left the ground, something inside me went still.Not out of fear… no, I’d felt fear before, faced and broken through it… but this… this was something else entirely. It was the kind of shock that settles deep in your bones, quiet and heavy, because your mind is still trying to catch up with what your eyes are already seeing.She was rising.Slowly at first, like the earth itself had loosened its grip on her, and then higher, steadier and very unnatural.The wind answered to her gravity.It came out of nowhere, curling around her body in sharp, restless currents, lifting strands of her hair, tugging at her clothes, as though the air itself had bent to her will. And then the smoke followed… thick, black, twisting around her like a living thing, wrapping and unwrapping in slow, hypnotic spirals.Her eyes…They weren’t hers anymore.It had turned pitch black, empty and void of emotion.And the way her arms stretched outward, palms open as if embracing s
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