Shadowbound Flame
Shadows clawed the ground around her boots, unspooling faster than she could rein them in.
Elara’s smile widened. “Oh, she’s cracking.”
The duel escalated. Fire, shadow, steel — everything colliding in bursts that scorched the sand. Sierra and Malick fought as one, their threads pulling tighter with every movement. His shadow and hers tangled, indistinguishable.
Too tight. Too close.
She felt his heat, his fury, his fear — like they weren’t two people at all, but one body splitting apart.
And then her control slipped.
The shadows erupted from her chest, wild and jagged, tearing the ground open in black cracks that bled silver light. Elara stumbled back, for once her smirk gone. Gloria’s eyes
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