I stood as still as I could behind Kael. I tried to keep my breathing slow and steady, but it was hard.
The energy inside me was growing every second. It did not feel like a poison anymore. It felt like a flood that was trying to break through a small crack in a wall.
My skin felt tight. It felt like my body was too small to hold everything that was happening inside me.
I looked down at my hands. I expected to see them shaking, but they were perfectly still. They were more than still. They looked different.
The light in the room was dim, but my skin was starting to pick up the glow from the candles in a way that was not normal. There was a faint, pearly shimmer moving just under the surface of my flesh.
It looked like moonlight trapped in a bottle. I pulled my sleeves down as far a
