FATED BY FIRE
His hands steadied me, his voice cut through the fog of exhaustion.
“Again,” he would command.
And I would obey, teeth gritted, sweat dripping down my spine.
By the third day, something shifted. My steps grew surer. My strikes carried weight. I felt the fire inside me not as destruction but as fuel. It terrified me how natural it felt, as though the power had only been waiting for me to claim it.
Still, the fortress remained uneasy. The whispers of betrayal had not died. And sometimes, when I caught Lucian staring into the distance, his jaw set, I knew he was carrying burdens he wasn’t sharing.
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