Ashes to Desire
"Sometimes an ally, sometimes more. But always there, always part of this... cycle. I couldn't remember before, but now…"
"Your Phoenix awakening has begun," Lena interrupted, her tone blunt and pragmatic, "and everything is about to change."
As if on cue, Ember gasped. I turned to see her staring at her hands, which had begun to glow from within, not like reflected firelight, but like embers in a dying fire, pulsing with internal heat. The light spread beneath her skin, tracing veins and arteries with golden-red luminescence.
"What the…" I started, but the words died in my throat as the glow intensified.
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