POV: Lila
The Fire That Changed Everything
The forest is too quiet. Mira walks ahead of me, her steps silent on the ash-covered ground. Her hair glows like embers under the moonlight. The ruins around us feel ancient, like the bones of something long dead. But she walks like she belongs here…like the fire didn’t just surround her… it welcomed her.
I stay hidden in the shadows, watching her.
Then I saw it. Her body glows not just with power but with something beyond it. Something old. Her eyes shimmer with a light I don’t recognize. Her feet don’t even sink into the dirt anymore. It’s like the earth itself is lifting her up.
“She’s…” I whisper to myself. “She’s not even human anymore.”
I take a shaky step closer. The fire doesn’t burn her. It swirls around her like it knows her name.
