Chapter 20
THINGS HAD BARELY GONE dark, the cold feeling of death stealing over me, when something inside me changed. Instead of cold pain, instead of the icy-hot temperature floating across my body, something took it over.
Warm healing power pulsed through me, beginning in my belly and coming out in wave-like rings. I was fighting my way back to the light. The deadly pain in my chest was being pushed out, in the strangest way.
My stomach burned in the area of my tattoo, initiating the healing power my sister had so beautifully instilled in me.
I had forgotten all about the tattoo. My mind had been so focused on the attack at hand that I forgot it was even there.
I forced my eyes open and gasped for air, my hands going for my stomach in hopes to soothe it.
My father held me in his ar
