CLARA’S POV I stood up, hands and feet quivering in the pack woods under a big tree with branches that formed a canopy over me. I looked around furtively, expecting a crowd of people to jump out and grab me to burn at the stakes, then I looked at my hands. They looked the same. The same three lines ran across them and they were still small and rough from all the work of an omega. I stared at the plant. It was green, very green and it was unfamiliar. I wasn’t a botany expert so not knowing the specie of the plant did not bother me but what bothered me was the fact that before my hands had hit the floor, there had been nothing but dead weed on ground and when I lifted it, it felt like the plant had been growing as I raised my hand. First I started to glow and now this! I was cursed. Th

