Ember Academy
The handwriting was different from the journal in the restricted library, firmer, more deliberate, though age had faded the ink to a soft brown that made some words difficult to place.
They tell me my fire is a curse. I no longer believe them. I believe it is simply honest, and honesty frightens people who have built their entire world on a lie.
I do not know what will become of me. I know only that if I am erased, if my name is struck from every record they can reach, I want whoever comes after me, whoever the old fire chooses next, to know this. The choosing is not a burden placed on you by the Founder. It is a gift he left, deliberately, for someone brave enough to accept it on their own