A hush settled over the courtroom as the guards lead Lucia in slowly. She could feel their stare; she could feel them watching her, judging her, scorning her. But there was truly nothing she could do about it. The guardians had abandoned her, and without their influence she couldn’t use her powers; without their influence she went back to being the helpless girl she had always been.
She was even surprised she had lasted this long; she had thought the guardians would have claimed her life by now. After all, they had made it very clear that she had to fulfill her end of the bargain else they’d take her life.
Yes, she had been threatened, but only because she had accepted their offer in the first place.
She still remembered how it all started. She remembered the exact moment. She remembere
