Chapter 41: What Wakes Up
Riven's Pov I did not go straight to her. I stood in the doorway of my study for a moment after Mara left, letting the information settle before I let myself move, because moving too fast in response to something you did not fully understand yet was how you made it worse. Glowing. In the dark. Faintly. I had read enough old texts in the past weeks to know what that meant. I had read the accounts of the old hybrid practitioners, the ones that had survived the purge by being passed down quietly, person to person, never written anywhere that the council might find them. The light was documented. Not universal, not every hybrid, but consistent in the cases where the ability was developing toward something beyond the reactive flashes she had been experiencing. It meant the ability was not
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