Ivy:
My first thought was fire. I thought it could protect me, so I surrounded myself in it, and for what felt like a millisecond, I caught a small glimpse of the stone I needed before my bone turned to ash, and I landed on the ledge in a sweating mess, rolling in pain from burns that weren’t there anymore.
I screamed my frustrations to the gods on my knees.
“What do you expect from me?” I cried out.
I put my forehead on the stone beneath me. I watched the flashes and billions of voices run through my mind too quickly to comprehend. I thought of how my mates slowed them; I thought of happiness and peace. None of that slowed the flashing lights of lives to come. So, again, I stood to my feet and leaped into the raging flames and ocean of fire and death in high hopes that my shield could
