Chapter 35
THE BEGINNING OF A TRUE AWAKENING
ARAZ
Ihammer on the glass wall that separates me from consciousness. I broke free for a moment, which means my power is growing.
A soft, buttery light blooms around me, and I turn toward it. There is a corridor behind me now. Dark stone tinged with an amber hue spilling from the light at the end of the tunnel.
It calls to me.
Beckoning me.
I look down at my hands, at the golden veins glowing beneath my skin. I’m almost whole, but I need the core of my power. I cannot fight this evil without it, and finally the path to the source is open.
He does not feel it. Too busy manipulating the outside world to look within.
He thinks me broken and weakened, but he does not know the truth of me. He has only ever witnessed a fragment of who I am, but soon he will feel the might of my wrath.
He defiled my twin flame, and he will pay with his life.
Leela, I am coming back to you.
By ash and cinder, by soul and flame, I vow it.
Leela and Araz’s journey continues in Wrathful and Avenging Gods