The Devil's Broken Doll
The pit’s sigils brightened as if startled awake, and for a blink, Adelaide saw them not as carvings but as script, an old language trying to pronounce her name.
Apollo’s eyes narrowed, wings flexing instinctively as the mountain itself seemed to lean closer.
Adelaide stepped forward. And Hell braced itself.
She inhaled. And the fire moved.
It wasn’t elegant. It wasn’t shaped. It spiralled neatly from her hands the way Cael had taught her to coax flame into obedience. It tore free—an eruption of incandescent heat that burst outward in a jagged arc, half firestorm, half pressure wave. It left her lungs in one savage exhale, as if her breath had been the match.
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