Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
Selene turned to face me, and her smile was the same one she had offered the grieving mothers, the same one she had aimed at the ventilation grate where I hid.
" Lumira," she said, and my name in her mouth sounded like a prayer and a threat braided together. "You've come to join the congregation."
The shard pulsed in my hand, eager, hungry, singing of boundaries and blood and the Duskbane duty to maintain what others would break.
I raised it between us, and the light that poured from its black surface turned the warehouse crimson, then silver, then white.
"No," I said, and my voice carried the weight of every guardian who had died maintaining seals the Council broke. "I've come to end it."
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