The Devil's Broken Doll
The heat from them brushed against the cool void of his shadow, and where they met, the air warped faintly, light and dark folding around each other without merging.
She could feel it. Not just her wings, but the interaction. The pull. The contrast. The way her fire seemed to stretch toward his shadow as if testing its boundaries.
Her gaze lifted past his shoulder, taking in the full span of it.
“They look like wings,” she murmured, her voice quieter now, threaded with something like awe.
Cael followed her gaze, jaw tightening slightly as he took in the shape his control had failed to contain. “They’re not,” he said, though there was less certainty in it than he intended.
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