Ember Academy
"That's not, I'm not, I'm just a village girl who got lucky with a firebreak—"
"You're the first person in a hundred years who's made that flame show anyone anything at all." Dorian's voice had lost every trace of its morning coldness now, replaced by something that sounded almost like fear, though not fear of her. Fear for her. "Sera. If that's true, if the fire just showed you what I think it showed you, you need to understand something."
"What."
He stepped closer, voice dropping to barely more than a breath.
"You didn't just prove the prophecy might be real tonight." His eyes held hers, steady, urgent. "You proved exactly what House Corvane has spent a thousand years making sure no one co