The cold no longer stung—it embraced me. My skin shimmered with a pale, crystalline hue as frost danced along my veins, visible beneath the surface. I was no longer simply Lux. I was the Ice Fae I was born to be, and with this awakening came a power I had only glimpsed in dreams. The cavern around me pulsed with a chill so profound that even the walls began to shimmer with frost.
Ash stood at the edge of the chamber, his crimson eyes narrowed with a mixture of fascination and apprehension. “So, this is the true you,” he said, his voice low, almost reverent. “I’ve always known there was something... more beneath the surface.”
I raised my hand, and a delicate flurry of snowflakes swirled around my fingertips. The sensation was intoxicating, as though I had unlocked a part of myself that ha
