As Lilith and I stood off against each other, one flaming with red lightning and one flaming with white lightning, Ethan and Ryker hesitantly moved away from me. The tension in the air was thick and vibrating with power, a crackling force pressing down on everyone present. The ground beneath us seemed to hum with the conflicting energies we both carried, and the distant roars of battle echoed like a soundtrack to the standoff that had been destined from the moment I received Kaiden’s ...