Chapter 70

• The silence was suffocating, but I had learned how to breathe through it.
• The lessons Kelvin had given me weren’t just about fighting or surviving physical attacks—they were about controlling my mind. How to push past the panic that crept up when fear clawed at my chest. How to focus when everything in me screamed to break.
• He had told me once, “The mind is the first weapon you have. Control it, and everything else follows.”