GINGER
I was creating flames. They flickered from my eyes, heat radiated outward, melting the frost-laced ground in front of me.
Terri’s mindlink came again, stronger this time. “Gigi. Your eyes. What the heck was that?”
My pulse hammered.
“I don’t know,” I admitted, stunned.
“Do it again.”
I hesitated, my heart pounding. She lifted herself slightly. Suddenly, she wasn't drowning in grief. She looked… hopeful.
I squeezed my eyes shut. What had triggered it? What had caused the fire?
Sophia. Her screams. The way her body crashed to the ground. The way the guards had just looked on, unaffected, amused.
The heat surged again, filling every inch of my body, curling behind my eyes like an inferno ready to burst. Dread and anguish bubbled in my chest and stomach, boiling me from the ins
