The Hidden Hybrid’s Redemption
"The metal... pull it out..."
"No," I snarled, my teeth bared as I shoved my weight down, driving the blade an eighth of an inch deeper to anchor it against his bone. "We use it."
I didn't try to summon a flame to fight Vane. Instead, I opened my core entirely, letting the volatile, hybrid warmth flood straight through my arms and into the iron blade. The imperial steel didn't melt; it turned a blinding, radiant white-hot, transferring the immense thermal energy directly into Killian’s collarbone and down into the dead, frozen nerves of his left side.