~Odette~
I winced as I walked forward through the heat of my own magic, teeth clenched, tears cutting clean lines through the soot on my face. My mother's face was contorted, but beneath the hollow eyes, beneath them, she could see something. A flicker. My mother's familiar pink eyes.
Mom.
I didn't have much time to react. I had to move quick.
I'd known he was coming. I'd positioned myself between Onyx and Ezelreth. And told Onyx to stand back through the bond.
'Not this time.' and inner voice called to me from within. I couldn't lose my lover in this life the way I had lost him in my last.
My soul wouldn't allow it. The trauma and pain were a drilled into it.
He laughed hard and maniacally and then suddenly moved first.
I felt the amusement in his laugh.
This pissed me off.
I released it, all of it. All of the pent up fear and anger. The loss and death surrounding me my whole life. I just let it erupt. Let it consume me for a moment.
