**Resilience—Mattia Turzo**
Var was truly enraged. And for Ember's crime of thwarting her plans, she was determined to show her true hell.
She made no move to leave the mountains even as she tortured Ember within an inch of her life just because she could. And that was just the first blow in the promise of many to come.
Ember didn't quite understand the obsession witches had with gunning for the heart of their victims in a fight, but Var proved herself to be just as unrelenting as the witches that attacked her in her room once upon a time.
Yet even as she twitched in pain as Var manipulated her magic to squeeze her heart painfully, Ember was forced to think of a solution to her present predicament. Should another three hours pass and Var's velth was replenished, she wouldn't have any other chance to destroy the runes as she once did.
