My grandmother's face lit up, a happy giggle escaping her. "I knew you did," she whispered, gripping my face between her hands. "I knew."

Still holding the crystal, I gently pushed toward the glowing core of power sitting so deep inside my mind I never knew it was there. It pulsed like a heartbeat, foreign to me, but yet so familiar after spending my entire life with it protecting me. It shaped me, guided me, but most importantly had done everything it could to keep me safe so ...