The weight of Lena’s words pressed down on me like a stone.

The first Eclipse-born.

The fire. The whispers. The power that had coiled beneath my skin since the moment I first saw those visions—it all made sense now.

But it didn’t make it any easier to accept.

I exhaled sharply, shaking my head. “You’re saying I’m connected to him? That I have the same power?”

Lena studied me, her silver-lit gaze steady. “I don’t think it’s just the same power, Idris. I ...