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Jon pulled the leather jerkin over his head. Around him, the preparation chamber buzzed like bees as boys from across the North donned their armor and checked their practice weapons. The air smelled of leather oil and sweat, punctuated by the occasional nervous laugh.
What if I lose control? The thought had been gnawing at him since he'd agreed to enter the melee. His fingers worked methodically at the buckles of his chest piece, but his mind was elsewhere—on the ice he'd shaped by the harbor, on the way water had bent to his will during the boat rescue, on the terrifying moment when his eyes had glowed and something else had moved through him.
"Seven hells, this thing weighs more than my horse," complained a stocky boy from House Umber, struggling with an oversized breastplate that clearly belonged to an older brother.
"At least you've got protection," laughed Smalljon's younger cousin, flexing in boiled leather that fit him like a second skin. "I'm counting on being too fast to hit."
Too fast to hit. Jon's hands stilled on his bracers. What if his newfound abilities made him faster than he should be? What if he moved like the wind without meaning to, or froze someone's weapon solid, or—gods forbid—hurt someone badly enough that they didn't get back up? He still remembered the first time he made Robb go flying in the Training Yard, it was only luck that Robb came unharmed from that.
"Jon Snow!" called out Daryn Hornwood, a boy roughly his own age with an easy grin. "Heard you've been training with real steel up at Winterfell. Think that gives you an edge over us wooden sword wielders?"
"We'll see," Jon replied, managing a smile. The truth was, his recent improvements had little to do with Ser Rodrik's instruction and everything to do with the training he got from the blue people, he had no idea how else to call them.
Robb appeared at his elbow, already fully armed and looking every inch the future lord. "Ready for this, brother?"
Brother. The word still warmed him, even as his secrets felt like stones in his stomach. "Ready as I'll ever be."
"Just don't go easy on me because we're kin," Robb grinned, testing the weight of his practice sword. "I want to earn any victory fairly."
If only you knew how unfair my advantages really are, Jon thought, pulling on his gauntlets.
Theon swaggered over, his own armor gleaming despite being borrowed from the Manderly armory. "Look at all these lordlings, pretending they're knights already," he said loud enough for several boys to hear. "Half of them probably cry when they stub their toes."
"And the other half are bastards who don't belong here anyway," muttered the fat boy Jon had noticed earlier, struggling with a helm that kept sliding over his eyes.
The words stung, as they always did, but Jon kept his face neutral. Control, he reminded himself. Always control.
"Care to say that louder?" Robb's voice carried a dangerous edge, and Jon quickly placed a hand on his brother's arm.
"It's fine, Robb. Let him talk."
"Power without control is destruction waiting to happen."
Jon's head snapped up, looking around the chamber. None of the other boys seemed to have heard anything, but Kyoshi's voice had been as clear as if she'd been standing beside him.
"Someone like you Jon must be master of himself before he can master the elements. Remember this, Jon Snow. In battle, your greatest enemy is not the boy across from you—it is your own fear."
"Jon?" Robb was looking at him with concern. "You all right? You look like you've seen a ghost."
Do blue people count as ghosts? Jon wanted to ask, but did not. "Just... thinking about what Father taught us. About finding advantages without compromising honor."
"Well, my advantage is going to be not getting pounded into the ground by that mountain of a lad," Daryn Hornwood said, nodding toward a Karstark boy who looked like he'd been eating nothing but meat and training since he could walk.
"Size isn't everything," Jon said, and meant it. He'd learned that much from Kyoshi—a slight woman who could topple grown warriors with the flick of her wrist. "Sometimes the smaller fighter has more to prove."
And sometimes, he thought grimly, the smaller fighter has powers that could accidentally crush every opponent in the yard.
Lord Manderly's voice boomed from the entrance to the melee ground. "Young warriors of the North! The time has come!"
Around him, boys straightened their shoulders and hefted their weapons. Jon picked up his practice sword, testing its balance. Just wood and leather wrapping, blunted and safe.
As they began filing toward the entrance, Jon caught sight of the viewing stands where Wylla sat with the other ladies, her green-dyed hair looked like emeralds, especially when the sunlight hit them in the right angle. She waved when she saw him looking, and his heart lifted despite his fears.
The wooden sword felt almost weightless in his hand as he stepped into the sunlight of the melee ground, but the weight of his secret felt heavier than ever.
Lord Manderly's horn sounded across the yard. "Let the youth melee begin!"
Boys who had been nervously adjusting their armor moments before suddenly transformed into charging wolves, wooden swords raised high as they rushed toward the center of the field. Jon found himself swept forward in the surge, his heart hammering against his ribs.
"MOVE!"
Kyoshi's voice exploded in his mind like thunder. Jon's body reacted before his conscious thought could catch up, throwing himself sideways just as a practice sword whistled through the air where his head had been. He hit the ground hard, rolling awkwardly as a Karstark boy—the mountain of muscle he'd noticed earlier—thundered past with a frustrated grunt.
"Seven hells," Jon gasped, scrambling to his feet. His sword had gone flying in the dive, and he spotted it several feet away, lying in the trampled grass.
Pay attention, you fool! Jon berated himself.
"Got you now, bastard!"
Jon spun to see the fat boy from earlier charging at him, wooden sword held high in both hands like an executioner's axe. For a moment, Jon almost laughed—the boy's form was so poor, his approach so telegraphed, that avoiding him should have been simple.
Should have been.
Jon's foot caught on an uneven patch of ground, and suddenly he was off-balance, falling backward as the fat boy's sword came crashing down. He managed to get his own blade up just in time, the impact jarring his arms and sending spikes of pain through his shoulders.
"Not so high and mighty now, are you?" the fat boy panted, pressing down with all his weight.
Jon tried to push back, but the angle was wrong, his leverage poor.
"Jon!" Wylla's voice carried across the field, high and worried. "Be careful!"
The distraction cost him. Two more boys had spotted his vulnerable position and were closing in fast—one from his left, another from behind the fat boy. Jon could see it all happening like pieces on a cyvasse board, could see exactly how this would play out: the fat boy would keep him pinned while the others moved in for easy strikes.
I could freeze the ground beneath them, he thought wildly.
The boy on his left reached him first, raising his sword for a strike at Jon's ribs. Jon tried to roll away, but the fat boy's weight held him down. He was trapped, helpless, about to be eliminated in the most embarrassing way possible while Wylla watched from the stands.
Then Robb was there.
"Get off my brother!" Robb's sword cracked against the fat boy's helmet with a sound like splitting wood. The larger boy toppled sideways, stunned, his grip on Jon loosening just enough for Jon to squirm free.
The second attacker had been mid-swing when Robb appeared. Now he hesitated, clearly not expecting to face the Stark heir's son. That moment of uncertainty was all Robb needed. His practice sword whipped around, catching the boy's weapon and sending it spinning from nerveless fingers.
"Yield!" Robb commanded, his voice carrying all the authority of Winterfell.
The boy raised his hands immediately. "I yield! I yield!"
Jon rolled to his feet, finally reclaiming his sword, but the grateful relief he should have felt was poisoned by something else entirely.
You have power to Bend, he thought bitterly, and you're still getting rescued like a helpless child.
"You all right?" Robb asked, not even breathing hard despite having just taken down two opponents. His blue eyes were concerned, protective in that way that made Jon feel simultaneously grateful and ashamed.
"I'm fine," Jon said, the words coming out sharper than he'd intended. Around them, the melee continued to rage, but for a moment it felt like they were in their own private bubble of awkwardness.
Robb's expression flickered—hurt, maybe, or confusion. "Jon, I was just—"
"I know what you were doing." Jon hefted his sword, trying to push down the hot knot of frustration in his chest. "Thanks."
But I didn't need it, he wanted to say. I could have handled it myself if I'd just—
If he'd just what? Used magic? Revealed himself as something unnatural in front of half the Northern houses?
"Jon Snow!" The fat boy was back on his feet, his helmet dented but his grip on his sword steady. "Fight me properly this time!"
Jon looked at him, then at Robb, who was already turning toward new opponents. In the stands, he could see Wylla watching intently, her hands pressed to her mouth in worry.
"Come on then," Jon said, settling into his stance. This time, he wouldn't let himself get distracted. This time, he'd prove he didn't need anyone's protection. Powers or not.
The fat boy charged again, and Jon moved to meet him, his frustration sharpening his focus like a whetstone on steel.
Across the melee ground, Theon Greyjoy was having the time of his life.
Jon watched through gritted teeth as the Ironborn ward cut through a cluster of younger boys like a scythe through wheat. Theon's wooden sword moved easily through them, disarming one opponent with a casual flick of his wrist before spinning to catch another's strike on his guard and riposting with a blow that sent the boy stumbling backward.
"Yield!" called young Donnel Locke, barely twelve and clearly outmatched.
"Smart lad," Theon grinned, lowering his weapon with theatrical flourish. He turned to survey the field like a king surveying his domain, and Jon felt his jaw clench involuntarily.
Show off, he thought bitterly, parrying a half-hearted strike from his own opponent. You're four years older than half of them.
But the crowd didn't care about age advantages. From the viewing stands came appreciative murmurs and scattered applause as Theon helped the fallen Locke boy to his feet with exaggerated chivalry.
"Now that's what I call swordwork," Lord Manderly's voice carried clearly across the field. Jon could see him leaning forward in his seat, gesturing toward Theon with obvious approval. "The boy's got natural talent."
Ned Stark chuckled. "Balon's son has certainly found his element. Perhaps what the Ironborn truly needed to win was Theon Greyjoy,"
"Ha! Indeed, my lord." Lord Manderly agreed with a laugh.
Jon's opponent chose that moment to attempt an overhead strike, telegraphing it so obviously that Jon sidestepped without thinking and tapped the boy's ribs with his sword point.
"Yield," the boy muttered, not meeting Jon's eyes.
But Jon barely heard him. His attention was fixed on the lords' continued praise of Theon, who had now engaged two opponents at once and was making it look effortless.
"Run Coward!" Theon's voice rang out as he disarmed both boys in quick succession. He raised his sword above his head in triumph, basking in the attention like a cat. "Who else wants a dance with the Kraken?"
Several more boys stepped forward eagerly. Even from across the field, Jon could see the swagger in every movement, the way Theon carried himself like he owned the very ground beneath his feet.
"Jon!" Robb's voice cut through his brooding. "Help me!"
Jon spun to see a Karstark boy bearing down on Robb from his blind spot while he was engaged with another opponent. The Karstark—the same mountain of muscle who'd nearly taken Jon's head off earlier—had his sword raised high, clearly aiming to eliminate the Stark heir with one decisive blow.
Time seemed to slow. Jon could see exactly how it would play out: the Karstark boy would bring his sword down across Robb's shoulders while Robb was still locked in combat with his other opponent. Robb might get seriously injured, might—
Jon's eyes fixed on the ground beneath the charging Karstark boy's feet. Just a patch of dirt, slightly damp from morning dew.
Just a little ice. Just enough to—
Jon felt the familiar cold flow through him, subtle as a whisper. The moisture in the earth responded to his will, crystallizing in an instant into a patch of slick ice barely visible against the dark soil.
The Karstark boy's foot hit the ice and flew out from under him. His arms windmilled wildly as he crashed to the ground with a grunt of surprise, his sword spinning away harmlessly.
"What in the seven hells—" the boy muttered, staring at the ground in confusion.
Robb had taken advantage of the distraction to finish off his first opponent and was now standing over the fallen Karstark boy with his sword at the ready.
"Yield?" Robb asked, slightly out of breath.
"I yield," the larger boy grumbled, still examining the treacherous patch of ground. "Cursed ice. Where did that come from?"
"Lucky break," Robb said, shooting Jon a grateful look. "Sometimes the ground just turns against you."
Jon nodded, trying to look appropriately mystified.
Beyond the Wall
Beyond the Wall, where winter ruled eternal and the very air seemed to cut like glass, the Night King stood motionless in a wasteland of white.
The landscape stretched endlessly in all directions—a desolate expanse broken only by the jagged remnants of what had once been trees, now twisted into blackened spears of ice. No wind stirred the pristine snow. No sound disturbed the absolute silence save for the soft crunch of ancient ice settling beneath impossible cold.
The Night King raised one pale hand, fingers spread like the branches of a dead tree. Around him, the snow began to respond.
It started as a whisper, tiny crystals lifting from the ground in spiraling patterns. Then more, and more, until the air itself seemed alive with dancing white. The snow moved not by wind but by will—his will—shaping itself into forms that defied nature.
The snow condensed, compacting under invisible pressure until it became ice, then something harder still. Crystalline structures erupted from the ground like flowers blooming in reverse—beautiful and terrible, sharp enough to pierce steel, cold enough to freeze blood in a man's veins.
Before him rose a palace of ice and death, its spires reaching toward a gray sky like accusing fingers. Each surface was perfectly smooth, reflecting distorted images of the wasteland beyond. It was a monument to his growing strength, a fortress that would make the Wall itself seem like a child's toy.
A sound like ice breaking escaped from his mouth.
Then he heard the heartbeat. The Night King's head tilted upward, ice-blue eyes fixing on the black speck wheeling against the colorless sky.
The bird circled lower, perhaps drawn by some ancient instinct, perhaps sent by another will entirely. Its dark wings beat frantically as it seemed to realize its mistake, but escape was no longer possible.
The Night King's hand moved. A shard of ice formed in his palm, perfectly balanced, sharp as a sword point, cold as the void between stars. Without hurry, without effort, he drew back his arm and released.
The projectile cut through the air with a sound like ripping silk. It struck the crow dead center, flash-freezing the bird's body even as it pierced through flesh and bone. The creature dropped like a stone, hitting the snow with a soft thud.
He gestured again, and the snow began to cover the fallen crow, erasing all evidence of its existence. Soon even that small disturbance would be forgotten, swallowed by the endless white.
Behind him, barely visible in the swirling snow, other shapes moved. Thousands of them. Tens of thousands. An army of the dead that grew larger with each passing day, each life claimed, each settlement discovered too late to flee.
The Night King turned his attention back to his ice palace, adding new spires with thoughts alone.
The long night was beginning, and this time, there would be no dawn.
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In the depths of his cave, Brynden Rivers jerked awake with a gasp that echoed off the stone walls. His body, more tree than man now, creaked as he struggled against the weirwood roots that held him.
"The ice," he whispered, his voice dry as autumn leaves. "By the old gods, the ice..."
Leaf looked up from tending the cave's eternal fires, her large eyes reflecting the flames. "What did you see?"
"Power." Brynden's remaining eye was wide with terror. "He's learning. Growing stronger by the day. The Night King—he commands winter itself now."
"We knew this would come to pass," Leaf said quietly, but her voice carried an edge of worry. "It is the way of things. Ice and fire, death and life—"
"No!" Brynden's voice cracked like breaking ice. "You don't understand. He's not just raising the dead anymore. He's shaping the very elements to his will. Building... creating..." He shuddered, the vision still fresh in his mind. "An army beyond counting marches behind walls of ice that reach the sky."
Leaf set down her work and moved closer. "What would you have us do? The boy is not ready—"
"The boy may be our only hope," Brynden interrupted. "Jon Snow carries power that could match the Night King's, but he doesn't even know what he truly is." His voice dropped to an urgent whisper. "We must send word. Warnings. Something."
"To whom? Who would believe?"
Brynden closed his eye, feeling the weight of prophecy and doom pressing down like a mountain of snow. "Anyone who will listen."
"The Wall remains there, it does not matter what he can do, the Wall stops all magicial abilities, that is why the dragons were never able to fly over the wall, why Coldhand can never return." Leaf said with certainty.
"That might be true, but they need to know what is growing North of the Wall, and the boy needs to be ready. The Wall might hold for now, but it won't be here forever. When the day comes that it falls, its protection will die with it, and Winter will come."
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Jon Snow
The Umber boy came at Jon with wild swings, his wooden sword whistling through the air like an angry wasp. He was bigger than Jon, stronger too, but his technique was all aggression and no finesse.
Like fighting a bear, Jon thought, ducking under another overhead strike that would have rattled his teeth. All power, no control.
The irony wasn't lost on him.
Jon circled left, watching his opponent's footwork. The Umber boy favored his right side, telegraphing his attacks with subtle weight shifts that Ser Rodrik had drilled Jon to notice. When the next swing came—a predictable slash aimed at Jon's ribs—he was ready.
Jon stepped inside the arc of the blow, his own sword coming up to catch the Umber boy's wrist. A quick twist, exactly as he'd been taught, and the larger boy's weapon went spinning away across the churned ground.
"Yield," Jon said quietly, his sword point hovering near the boy's throat.
For a moment, the Umber boy's face flushed red with embarrassment. Jon could see him weighing his options—surrender, or try to tackle Jon without a weapon and risk serious injury.
"I yield," the boy muttered finally, stepping back with his hands raised.
A cheer went up from the stands, and Jon felt his heart leap. Not the polite applause he'd heard for other bouts, but genuine enthusiasm. He turned toward the viewing area and saw Wylla on her feet, clapping with unrestrained joy.
Lord Manderly's voice boomed across the field. "Well fought, all! The sun grows low, and these young warriors have shown us excellent sport!" He gestured broadly at the remaining fighters. "We shall continue tomorrow, when fresh legs and sharp minds can give us their best. Rest well, lads—tomorrow we crown our champion!"
Jon looked around the field, counting the survivors. Himself, Robb, Theon, three or four others from various houses. Not bad odds for a bastard who'd been rescued twice in the first hour.
Jon glanced at the patch of ground where he'd conjured ice to trip the Karstark boy. The evidence had long since melted away, leaving only ordinary dirt.
"Jon!" Robb's voice cut through his brooding. His brother was jogging over, his face flushed with exertion and genuine happiness. "Seven hells, that was beautifully done! Did you see how you read his attack?"
"You weren't doing badly yourself," Jon replied, nodding toward where Robb had left two opponents sprawled in the dirt. "Father will be pleased."
"Father will be pleased with both his sons," Robb said firmly, clapping Jon on the shoulder. "Bastard-born or not, you fight like a true Stark."
Before he could respond, a blur of green hair and excitement crashed into him. Wylla had somehow made it down from the stands and past the guards, and she threw her arms around Jon's neck with complete disregard for propriety.
"That was amazing!" she laughed, pulling back just enough to look at his face. "The way you moved, the way you—" She glanced around quickly, then lowered her voice. "The way you helped Robb earlier. That was clever."
Jon's stomach dropped. "I don't know what you—"
"Don't," she said softly, her eyes dancing with mischief. "I saw. I understand. And I think it's wonderful."
She thinks it's wonderful. The words echoed in Jon's mind like a bell. Here was someone who knew his secret, who'd seen him use powers that shouldn't exist, and her reaction was joy rather than fear.
"Wylla," he started, but she was already pulling him toward where the other fighters were gathering.
"Come on! Grandfather wants to congratulate everyone, and then we're having a feast to celebrate!" She paused, looking back at him with that conspiratorial smile. "And later, you're going to teach me exactly how you did that ice thing."
Jon's heart hammered against his ribs. Teach her. The words he'd dreaded saying, the conversation he'd been avoiding, and here she was asking for exactly what he couldn't give her.
But what if I can? The thought crept in like a whisper. What if she's different too? What if there's something in her that could learn?
It was a dangerous hope, probably a foolish one. Everything Aang had told him suggested that bending powers were unique, that bending was something only he could do in this world. But Wylla had seen him use ice and laughed with delight instead of running in terror. She'd accepted the impossible as if it were merely surprising.
Maybe, he thought as she tugged him toward the celebration, maybe I'm not as alone as I thought.
Ned Stark
Ned Stark closed the door to his chamber with a soft click, the sounds of celebration from the great hall fading to a distant murmur. The day had been a good one. Robb and Jon had acquitted themselves well in the melee, and Jon's performance in particular had surprised him. The boy was growing into his abilities, finding confidence that had nothing to do with his birth.
Catelyn worries too much, he thought, moving toward the fireplace where a small blaze crackled against the evening chill. Jon may be a bastard, but he has the wolf's blood as surely as—
A soft caw from the window stopped him mid-thought. A crow perched on the sill, black eyes gleaming in the firelight, a rolled parchment tied to its leg with simple twine.
Ned frowned. No one had announced the arrival of any messages, and Maester Medwick usually brought correspondence directly to him. He approached the window cautiously, his hand instinctively moving toward the dagger at his belt.
"Easy, friend," he murmured, untying the letter. The crow regarded him with an almost intelligent stare before launching itself back into the darkening sky.
The parchment was plain, unmarked by any seal or signet. No house colors, no identifying marks of any kind. In his years as Lord of Winterfell, Ned had received thousands of letters, but never one quite like this.
Curious.
He unrolled the parchment and began to read. His eyebrows rose as he took in the first few lines, written in a careful, educated hand:
'''Lord Stark,
You do not know me, but I have seen visions of your bastard son. The boy who commands winter's breath and summer's flame...
"What in the seven hells?" Ned muttered, his eyes reading faster.
...the old powers stir, and the dead march south. Your Jon Snow is more than he appears...*
Ned's expression darkened as he read on. References to ancient powers, to Jon being some sort of prophesied figure, to abilities that defied all reason. The writer didn't mention who they were, but they were claiming of seeing visions of Jon Snow fighting the undead.
Mad as a bag of cats, Ned thought grimly. But as he reached the letter's end, something made him pause:
...ask yourself, my lord, where is the boy going recently, you might need to see it for yourself, he is different than he was before, and I'm sure you have noticed it too...
Despite himself, Ned felt a chill run down his spine. Jon had seemed different lately, and there had been that strange incident with the boat. Theon's wild tale of unnatural waves, the way Jon had emerged from the water like some legendary figure...
But then the letter descended into rambling prophecy about "the long night returning" and "ice and fire joining as one," and Ned's brief uncertainty faded into familiar skepticism.
"Mad people in this world," he said aloud, shaking his head with dark amusement. "More of them every year, it seems."
He tossed the letter into the fire without a second thought, watching the parchment curl and blacken as the flames consumed it. Whatever Red Priest or hedge witch had sent this nonsense, they'd chosen the wrong man to try their games on.
Daenerys Targaryen - 293 AC
The candle broke with a snap that sounded like thunder in the little room.
"No, no, no!" Viserys's voice rose higher with each word, and Daenerys pressed herself against the wall. When her brother got like this—when his face turned red and his hands shook—bad things happened. "Five coppers for this room, and they can't even give us a proper candle!"
The darkness pressed in around them like a living thing. Daenerys could barely see Viserys anymore, just his shadow moving back and forth, back and forth, like the big cats she'd once seen in a traveling show.
"We are dragons!" Viserys shouted at the walls, at the dark, at nobody. "Dragons do not live in darkness like rats!"
Daenerys crept forward on her hands and knees, feeling for the broken pieces. The wax was still warm under her fingers. Maybe if she could fix it, maybe if she could make light, Viserys would stop being so angry. He was always less scary when he could see.
"I can fix it," she whispered, though she didn't know how. "Please, Viserys, I can—"
"You can what?" He whirled on her, and even in the dark she could feel his eyes. "You're just a stupid girl. You can't fix anything. You can't bring back our armies, our throne, our—"
His words kept going, but Daenerys stopped listening. She'd learned how to make his angry words float past her like clouds. Instead, she focused on the broken candle in her hands, on how badly they needed light.
Please, she thought, squeezing the wick between her fingers. Please, please, please. We need light. I need to fix this.
Her hand felt warm. Then warmer.
And then—
Fire.
A tiny flame, no bigger than her thumbnail, danced in the center of her palm. It didn't hurt. It felt like holding a piece of summer, like the dreams she sometimes had of dragons and warmth and flying.
Daenerys stared at it, her mouth falling open. The flame was beautiful—golden and red and the tiniest bit of green at the very bottom. It moved like it was alive, like it was dancing just for her. For a moment, she forgot about Viserys, forgot about being scared, forgot about everything except this impossible little fire that had come from nowhere.
I made this, she thought, and something in her chest felt bigger, stronger. I made fire from nothing.
The flame flickered in her palm, casting shadows that danced across her face. She could see her other hand now, could see the broken candle with its blackened wick.
Carefully, like she was moving through honey, she brought her burning hand to the candle. The wick caught immediately, and proper candlelight filled their shabby room.
"Finally!" Viserys spun around, his rage interrupted. "What did you do? Where did you find flint?"
Daenerys looked at her palm. The fire was gone, leaving no mark, no burn, nothing to show it had ever been there. Her hand looked exactly the same as always—small and pale and ordinary.
"I..." She swallowed hard. "I found some flint. In... in my pocket."
Viserys grunted, already turning away, his anger cooling now that he could see again. "Good. At least you're useful for something."
Daenerys stared at her palm for another heartbeat, then closed her fingers tight.
I made fire, she thought again, but this time she kept the words locked inside where they were safe. Some secrets, she was learning, were better kept in the dark.
Even if they were made of light.
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