Auden’s Blessing
“Sister… you have always been the most important person to me in the world. But now it’s different. I have friends, I have Loki, I have a career and dreams… I will always be Wanar, even if my bloodline isn’t. So, no matter what, I won’t go.”
“His Majesty ordered me—not unless absolutely necessary—to prevent your awakening… Do you truly insist?”
“I don’t want to be anyone else either,” I said firmly, staring at her. “I am Ena. Only Ena.”
Freya sighed softly. Then she cupped a sphere of ice-blue light, chanted a spell, and hurled it at me. I didn’t even have time to dodge. A sharp pain shot through my waist. Thinking I was bleeding, I lifted my shirt—only to see that the diamond-shaped mark on