Atlas was right: she had more power now than she had ever possessed. It wasn’t a matter of what she was born with or what she was given—being here, among them, with access to the library’s materials, she had every opportunity to travel miles beyond herself. She could feel the outer edges of her power more distantly than ever, farther than the tips of her fingers or the soles of her shoes. She could feel herself in waves, pulsing. She could feel herself expanding, and there was no end to it, no beginning. Who she had once been was as distant and unrecognizable as what she would, inevitably,
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