Eve's eyes burned so fiercely that even Ivan didn't dare intervene. He knew she must have been frustrated all those years being powerless, especially hearing just one incident of how that queen had treated her as a kid, and he thought perhaps it was finally time for her to show everyone who had ever underestimated her.
Eve felt a surge of power thrumming through her veins, as if she could reduce the world to ashes in her wake. And yet, she was also painfully aware of the innocent souls around her, those she would never want to harm. Because she remembered that with great power comes great responsibility.
All of her life, she had been treated like a lifeless doll, forced to survive on scraps of mercy while silently wishing that one day they would turn around and love her for who she was. Give her respect as a living, breathing being. But instead, she had been shunned, abused, restricted, and abandoned. But not anymore!
