Ariella's POV
We focused inward, reaching for that deep well of power I’d been chasing since I was a kid and learnt the hard way that I had to avenge my clan.
The Lunaris gifts…the ones that were supposed to be mine by blood but always stayed just out of reach. No library, no ancient scrolls, no one to teach me. Just blind trial and error in hidden moments like this.
Hazel closed our eyes, breathing steady, pushing everything we had into awakening our powers fully.
The air around us started to change. The stream’s gentle ripples froze mid-motion, water turning mirror-still like glass. The breeze died completely. Even the birds went silent. It felt like someone had slammed a pause button on the entire forest…time itself holding its breath.
My concentration deepened, straining, pulli
