FREYA
The words spilled out before I could stop them, shaky and uneven, tumbling over themselves until I barely recognized my own voice.
“I don’t know what’s happening,” I blurted, clutching my arms as though I could hold myself together. “I swear, Killian, I’m not controlling anything. The dragon fire...” The word itself felt heavy, like a curse on my tongue. “It’s like it’s fighting its way back into me somehow. And I can’t stop it.”
His eyes sharpened instantly, and I saw the questions stack in his head like stones piling higher, his chest rising and falling in sharp, uneven breaths. But the floodgate inside me had already broken.
“It’s almost like it’s trying to come out on its own, without me calling it. But then when I actually try to summon it...nothing. I feel empty. I don’t u
