Chapter 24
- Alexander POV
- The last time I’d stepped into Elder Vaelin’s study, I was thirteen years old and terrified out of my mind. My fingers had been bloodied from the binding trials, my bones still aching from the shift. He’d looked at me then like a boy on the edge of a storm—uncertain if I’d break, or become something the world would fear.
- Now I was older. Stronger. But no less afraid.