Chapter 10
The Flicker's Arrival
Anya encounters Flicker, a young girl with uncontrolled powers, and feels compelled to protect her, forming an unlikely bond.
The air in the abandoned warehouse hung thick with dust motes dancing in the slivers of moonlight that pierced the grimy windows. My breath hitched, a nervous flutter in my chest. Elias had told me to wait here, that someone would come. He’d spoken of another like me, a girl with a star on her forehead, but one who hadn’t yet found her way. My own star felt like a beacon, a silent hum beneath my skin, and the thought of another, lost and perhaps afraid, tugged at something deep inside me.
I traced the cool, smooth surface of my own sticker, the familiar star-shape a comforting anchor in the swirling chaos of my new life. Just yesterday, I’d been Anya, the quiet bookshop assistant. Now, I was Anya, the girl who could, apparently, do impossible things. And I was on the run. The Overseer’s people, those cold-eyed shadows, were still out there, their whispers of control and eradication a constant thrum in the background of my thoughts.
A faint scuffling sound from the far end of the warehouse made me jump. My hand instinctively went to the side of my head, as if to steady the star. I held my breath, straining my ears. It wasn't the heavy tread of trained boots, more like the frantic scrabble of something small and quick.
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