Lex POV "It's done!" Lotus chirped excitedly as he released the girl, who collapsed to the ground. Suddenly, the atmosphere shifted, and something cold brushed against me from above. "What's happening?" I asked, looking up at the sky. White, cold, wet flakes drifted down from the sky. "It's snowing," Lotus replied, a smile spreading across his face. "Snowing?" I gasped. "It never snows." "It does," he said. "Only when our kind finds his mate... This is a sign, Lex!" His eyes sparkled with a mix of joy and disbelief, and I could hardly process what he meant. "Lotus—" I was interrupted by the whistling wind shaking the treetops, the earth shifting beneath my feet, and the suffocating thick air. A surge of energy coursed through me as the world around us transformed, each flake of snow

