RAGNA POV...
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Silence engulfed everything.
I felt impossibly light, like I had become part of the air, a gust slicing through the forest. Falling leaves drifted so slowly it was as if the world had paused just for me.
I shifted at the last second, narrowly avoiding another collision.
I looked down at my legs.
A smile crept onto my lips.
Several days had already slipped past me while I drowned in my own thoughts, and in that time I had unintentionally begun to reveal fragments of my powers—gradually, almost imperceptible things that should have raised questions—but somehow, miraculously, my family still hadn't noticed anything strange about me, or perhaps they noticed and chose to stay silent, which frightened me even more than being confronted outright.
