Aria's POV

There's a specific kind of horror that comes with watching buildings full of innocent people burn while knowing you could have prevented it if you'd acted differently. It's the kind of horror that either breaks you completely or transforms you into something much more dangerous than you were before.

I felt the transformation happening in real time.

"How long do we have?" I asked Hayes as he worked frantically to override the emergency exit locks.

"Before the fires spread to this ...