The Omega Queen
“You climb into my breath, mortal child.”
The words weren’t spoken so much as woven into the wind itself. They circled me, pulled at me, and slid across my skin like cold rain.
“I am Zephora. I am the storm that breaks ships and bends forests. My hair is lightning. My eyes are rain. You are in my domain now, and you will not pass unless you endure me.”
My throat went dry. Each spirit I had met had been terrifying in their own way, but there was something about her, something primal. Her voice was not cruel, not mocking, but it carried the kind of certainty only nature itself could wield.