The Eclipse Secret Child
in my center, I didn't think of it as magic, I thought of it as a vacuum, I thought of every time he had called me empty.
‘If I am a void,’ I told the darkness inside me, ‘then let’s see how much light we can hold.’
The shadows erupted from my chest, not as smoke, but as a solid, midnight-black tide, they surged over the ramparts, meeting the solar sphere mid-air.
There was no explosion.
Instead, there was a sickening slurp, the darkness wrapped around the fire, swallowing it whole, the light didn't push back, it was simply extinguished, sucked into the obsidian mass and funneled back through my arms and into my womb.
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