Third Person POV
The stars trembled as she stepped into the sun-drenched plane where he waited.
Helios.
He stood at the center of a molten horizon, golden armor gleaming, flames licking at his heels as if even the fire revered him. The brightness of his domain made her skin prickle, her silver light muted and fragile here.
“Brother,” she said, voice steady despite the fury tightening in her chest. “You’ve gone too far.”
He didn’t turn to her right away. Instead, he lifted his face to the sky as though basking in his own brilliance.
“I’ve only just begun,” he murmured. “Don’t be so quick to mourn what you don’t understand.”
Selene’s feet touched the scorched stone beneath them, her light casting a halo in the fire. “Gavin was mine to guide. Mine to heal. You’ve twisted him.”
“I’ve g
