Fractured
“No. Not while I still breathe.”
She slammed her palms back into the soil. Her body convulsed as another wave of power ripped through her, raw and untamed. The energy fought her, wild as a storm, bucking against her will. Pain seared her arms as if her own veins were splitting open. But she did not relent. She shoved everything she had into the ground, every ounce of love, every stubborn ember of defiance.
Around her, the shadows twisted. They writhed into shapes—faces, grotesque and mocking, carved from her own fears. They sneered at her with her mother’s disappointment, her father’s silence, her elders’ warnings that she was too wild, too reckless, too weak.
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