Hearts and Ashes
My lightning still crackled, defiant and fierce, flickering between my fingers, begging to be unleashed.
Father sighed, the sound heavy with exhaustion, as if he’d aged ten years in the span of a few moments. His eyes, dark and hollow, met mine, and there was no warmth left in them. Only cold indifference.
"I have no more sons," he muttered, voice low and bitter. "Or you would have joined your brother tonight in the underhells."
The words hit me harder than any strike of lightning could. He was dismissing me. Threatening me. And yet... he was walking away. He turned on his heel, his back to me, as though I was no more than a passing inconvenience.
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