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“Well, Sprite, it looks like you’re embracing a goth phase with a potential side hustle in burglary.”
“Oh… hmm, too much black?” I spin around to face them, running a hand over the all black lehenga. “I just thought the beading was pretty.”
“It is pretty, sweetheart. Ignore the boys.” Sam casts the three guys a scathing look before turning back to me.

Go Sam!

“Pipes, are you still not done?”
“Almost. What do you think of this one?” I ask my twin as I look at him, Aaron, and Zane through the mirror instead of turning around.

“Dude, it comes with a surprise toy inside. It’s for kids.”
“Don’t argue, Skylar. You’ll lose.” Zane’s voice rumbles through the room as he walks around my brother, heading straight for the coffee machine. “Peanut, you want one?”
“I can make it—”
“Why? I’m already over here. And I’m taking that as a yes.”

“Vertus, we’ve been asked to come by this weekend to discuss Ember’s safety in light of the note. You’ll be able to see her then, and you have time to think of a sufficient method of grovelling, for… whatever it is you need to grovel for.”

“Ember, when you… burnt out?”
“Impersonated a phoenix?”
“Yes, then. Well, I saw… I saw your scars.”
“I’m sorry—”
“Don’t. Don’t ever be sorry for surviving. Do you hear me? Don’t apologise for that. You have

“Impersonated a phoenix?”😂

The Commander stalks out of hearing range of the other trainees as I approach Ember, lowering my voice so as not to be overheard.
“You don’t have to do this. I won’t stop you, but I don’t want to send you to a dark place…” She looks up at me with a frown creasing her brows.

“Is that why you were so hard on the other girls in your assessments? You were kind of a dick to Lhuthal.” Zane tries to hide his laugh with a cough and fails—although there seems to be a small coughing fit from Tavon, Sam, Aaron, and Skylar, too.

collapsed from expelling and channelling so much magic. Zane carried her up to her room since they all thought my clumsy ass would drop her, which, in all fairness, I probably would have.

“It’s true, Dad. Ember is an Anchor, and she… she syphoned a lot of magic from both of us,” I say, re-entering the kitchen after checking on my twin. After Dad hit the Commander, and knocked him out, Ember’s body gave out, and she

“Zane,” he growls, clearly not impressed, but he doesn’t need to be. I should probably play nice, though… eventually.