Chapter 103 The Secret Within

• Aria’s POV
• The heat still burns inside me. Not in a painful way, but in a powerful one. It feels like something old and hidden has finally woken up. I’m standing amid the training fields, surrounded by burnt earth, fractured stones, and horrified quiet. The flames are gone now, but the memory of them stays in every nook of my skin.
• Lena runs toward me, wide-eyed. “Aria! Are you okay? What was that?”