“They’re all so frightened of me,” he whispers. “Even the people I’ve known since I was a child. They don’t see me anymore. They only see what I’ve done. I lost everything to that massacre, everything. My people are waiting for me to explode again. And I won’t lie—it’s a possibility. Something was unlocked inside me that day—I drew upon power I should have never accessed, and it changed me, down to my very bones. You saw the proof of that, inside my body.”
