Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
hold on to Lumira.
I reached for her memories. Not the ones the fire was consuming, but the ones that mattered - her rage, her pride, and her absolute refusal to die broken. I fed the fire those instead.
The flames shifted.
The angry, muddy red began to bleach into crystalline white. It deepened into searing silver. Then - the fire bled into a deep, impossible cobalt blue. It stopped biting and started flowing.
The blue fire curled around my arm like a serpent, wrapping me in light that felt strangely cold. It didn't burn anymore. It resonated.