Iron Veve's Kiss
“This fuego (fire) is not just yours. It is my mother’s, and her mother’s, all the way back to the women who walked through fire to cross the Rio Grande. Cuidado, mija (Be careful, my daughter). The flame listens. It hungers.”
A shadow passed overhead. I glanced up. A crow perched in the skeletal branches of a live oak, its head cocked unnaturally to one side. One eye glinted gold, the other milky white—a veve (voodoo symbol) carved into the bark beneath its talons. Dragon shifted behind us, boots scuffing gravel. When I looked over, his smirk had vanished. He stared at the bracelet, eyes narrowed, as though it were something to be feared.
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