Chapter 16
A Love's True Strength
Florinda's love becomes a conduit for immense magical power. She unleashes a wave of protective energy, overwhelming the sorcerer. His dark magic falters, defeated by the purity of her heart.
The air in the sorcerer’s chamber crackled, not with the usual malevolent energy of the place, but with something entirely new, something that vibrated with a warmth Florinda had never known. It pulsed from her, a radiant tide that pushed back the oppressive darkness. Lysander, bound and gagged, watched with wide eyes, his heart swelling with a fierce, protective love for the woman who stood before him. He had always sensed a light within Florinda, a quiet strength that drew him in, but this… this was a sunburst.
The sorcerer, a gaunt figure whose eyes burned like embers in a perpetual twilight, recoiled. His spells, usually so potent, seemed to dissipate against Florinda’s burgeoning aura. He had expected fear, a desperate struggle, perhaps a flicker of raw, uncontrolled power. He had not anticipated this pure, unadulterated love manifesting as a force of nature.
“You cannot defeat me, girl!” the sorcerer snarled, his voice rasping like dry leaves skittering across stone. He raised a gnarled hand, and tendrils of shadow snaked towards Florinda. But they withered and died before they reached her, dissolving into harmless wisps of smoke.
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