Power. What was it? Did anyone understand what that word meant? Did they know what one had to give up to get it? What was the use of being powerful if it meant dying one day and leaving everything you worked so hard for behind? They lived long lives but they weren't immortal. There was only so much magic a body could take before it started dying. She didn't want her efforts to go to waste. After all the evil she'd committed, all the things she'd done, it would be a shame if she didn't achieve her goals. She would be royally pissed off if she didn't get what she wanted.
All her life, Dalila had been passed over. She couldn't be with the person she wanted because she wasn't destined to be with him. Her parents, no, her mother had only been born a minute late. Her aunt took the first born t
