I sighed to myself in the mirror, Astria whispering positive things through my head as I picked myself apart. There was nothing special about me that would make Ashton’s family fall in love with me immediately. I had regular dark brown hair, so dark it was almost black. My eyes were a regular blue-green color. My nose was regular, like a button nose. I did have a full set of lips, very pink.
But that alone wouldn’t make them love me. As I turned my face around in the mirror, I noticed a small scar on my chin, almost in the shape of an x. Almost impossible for someone with immense healing abilities, I thought back to where I could have gotten the scar.
I could feel the heat beginning to swell around my skin, the cramped space beginning to close in on me. My breath started to quicken, and
