Aria
Aria didn’t argue this time.
That was the first thing Darius noticed, and it immediately put him on guard.
She stood in the center of the room, exactly where she had been before. Nothing about her position had changed, but her presence had. The tension that usually followed her was gone. No sharp remarks, no visible resistance.
She was calm.
Too calm.
“Again,” Darius said.
Aria nodded without hesitation.
That alone made him wary.
She closed her eyes and reached for her power, and it responded almost instantly. There was no delay this time, no resistance pressing it down the way it had before. It rose smoothly, like it had been waiting.
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