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“Accidents are for children. And you,” Doña Sofía said, stepping closer, “are a liability. There is a reason we hunted your kind. You cannot control what you are.”

“Path of Heart,” she whispered.

The obsidian beads scattered like dark rain. And the world screamed . grachi

She reached out and, with impossible speed, snapped the leather bracelet. “Accidents are for children

Doña Sofía staggered back, the smoke dissipating. Her face, for the first time, was not cruel. It was old. And tired. And maybe, just maybe, sorry. You cannot control what you are

The next morning, she woke up to find her hair floating. Not in a cute, wind-blown way. It was levitating, a dark curly halo of static defiance. She screamed, slapped it down, and it sprang right back up. Her mother, a pragmatic nurse, chalked it up to “humidity and teenage hormones.”

Power flooded Grachi—not a trickle, but a tsunami. The lights in the hallway exploded. Lockers flew open, spewing textbooks and gym clothes. A conduit of raw, untamed electricity shot from her hands, punching a hole through the ceiling and into the second-floor library.