Torn Between Destinies

Chapter 52 - Fifty Two

Chapter 52: Chapter Fifty TwoThe spirit world greeted me again with silence. Not the silence of peace—but the heavy, waiting kind. I stood alone in a space that didn’t have a sky, a ground, or even a wind to lean against. Just a strange sense of floating in something too big to understand.

Orrin had sent me here before sunrise. "This time," he’d said, "you must walk alone. I cannot follow where you’re meant to go."

I had nodded. My legs were still sore from the last trial, but the ache felt right. Real. Like it belonged to someone stronger than the girl who once begged Darius not to let her go.

Now, I

I nodded.

I didn’t feel like a girl anymore.

I felt like a fire, walking in the shape of one.