LARA “Tell me,” was all he said as he lay down with me and pulled me onto his chest. I sighed and told him everything that I managed to learn, including why I got interested in seraphim in the first place. “What do you think?” I asked him after I was done, while afraid to even look him in the eye. Was I silly to be worried about all that? “I think that all of that is very…interesting, Lara,” he answered, playing with my hair, “Do you think you are one of them?” There. He said it out loud. The one thing that I was afraid to even think about. Yet still had to consider. “I don’t know. Could I be?” Demir was silent for a while but then replied nonchalantly, “Who knows. I would not rule out such a possibility. Your magic was always very special. Stronger than what your peop

