Arwen's POV
My power responds before I do.
That is the most honest way to describe what happens in the two seconds between Draven saying she was here to act and my body understanding what the containment vessel means. Not a decision. Not a choice made through any process I can identify. The suppression has been breaking down for weeks and Zara has been teaching me to hold the centre and I have been getting better at the gap between stimulus and response, the four seconds, the eight seconds, the growing distance between feeling and action.
The containment vessel closes that gap to nothing.
Something in my bloodline recognizes it. Not intellectually, not through any knowledge I consciously have, but at the level where the suppression used to live, where the six generations of hidden powe
