The courtyard smelled of iron and wet earth as dawn broke over the fortress. Warriors trained in the yard, their strikes rhythmic, but their glances kept darting to me.
Word had spread quickly.
The Luna who could throw warriors across a room with nothing but a surge of power.
I ignored their stares and focused on the task ahead.
Kade stood across from me, his arms crossed, watching closely. “We need to know what you can do,” he said. “And how to control it.”
I frowned. “You sound like you’ve done this before.”
His lips twitched, but his tone stayed serious. “I haven’t. But I know what it looks like when someone’s power controls them instead of the other way around. That can’t happen to you again.”
“I didn’t exactly ask for this,” I muttered.
“I know,” he said, his voice softening s
