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Put it out,I told them.
They glanced at each other before looking at me. “I thought you said that learning to fight Lucifer wouldn’t have anything to do with fire,” Cami said.
Put it out,I repeated as my Phoenix puffed out my chest.There’s a point to it. I promise.
Cami scowled and Ajax appeared even less amused. “Aflora isn’t going to appreciate you burning up her property,” he informed me. “I’ll make sure she knows this wasyouridea.”
I snorted inside.Fine. Now stop wasting time and put out the damn fire.
It was vital for today’s training, assuming they could survive the first task. They needed to master this lesson in order for the next step of my plan to fall into place.
A plan that I hoped ended with deliverance.
Not death.
Although, when Cami unleashed her first attempt to calm the flames, it became apparent that this was going to take a while.
Because instead of cooling the flames with water or something similar, she used warmth to stoke them higher.
“That worked on the Marsh Lands portal,” she said, her lips twisted.
This isn’t a portal,I said into her mind.It’s Phoenixfire.
But she didn’t listen.
Instead, she tried a similar spell, making me sigh inside.
At this rate, we were all going to burn.
CHAPTER24
CAMI
I don’t get it,I snarled in my mind, tired of this endless game of fires.
Every effort I’d made to extinguish the Phoenix’s flames had only made matters worse. At least Ajax had worked a spell to keep the fires from expanding and consuming the whole property. He could contain it and keep it from spreading, but we couldn’t put it out.
As evidenced by the five trees that had ignited and now sizzled into vibrant displays of reds, blues, and golds.
I’d never seen fire like this. It reached for the sky, the branches blistering with flames that left the air smelling like burnt embers.
Put it out,Az said for the thousandth fucking time.
“I’m fucking trying!” I snapped back, memories of my childhood coming back to haunt me.
That everglade exercise with my father—where he’d dropped me in the middle of the swampy lands and set everything on fire around me—seemed to have been a defining event from my past.
Or maybe it was because playing with flames was a fun pastime for the Hell Fae.
Regardless, I officially hated fire.
Ajax panted beside me, his torso bright pink. He’d peeled off the top part of his battle leathers because the fireproof material had started to melt into his skin.
Shit. How am I supposed to handle this when even Ajax is having a hard time?
The heat from the fires was way too hot now, threatening to consume us if this continued much longer.
Ajax paced the ash-covered ground, his frustration palpable. Every now and then, he hurled insults at Az, but the Shifter Fae said nothing.
