Aurora was ten years old when Selena and Dante began to truly understand what their immortality meant, not just in terms of years stretched before them, but in terms of what they would become to the world. Their daughter had grown into a remarkable child—small for her age but burning with intelligence and power that manifested in unexpected ways. She could call down lightning with a laugh and coax flowers to bloom with a touch. She was beloved by the people of Ashborne, who had watched her grow from an infant of impossible flame into a precocious girl who spent her days studying with scholars and practicing her abilities in the training grounds.
But it was Aurora herself who first voiced the truth that Selena and Dante had been slowly, reluctantly coming to accept.
