Heather's POV
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Light.
That was the first thing I felt.
Not warmth. Not pain. Just... light. It was everywhere-inside me, around me, pressing gently against my skin like a second breath. I didn't remember breathing before. Had I?
I blinked. Once. Twice.
And then my eyes opened.
I was lying on soft grass, the smell of wildflowers and pine clinging to the air. Above me stretched a wide sky, painted with lavender clouds and the golden hues of early dawn. It should have felt foreign.
It didn't.
It just... was.
I sat up slowly, muscles aching like they hadn't been used in years. My palms sunk into the soil beneath me, grounding me to a world I didn't recognize but instinctively knew was mine.
A forest. A border. A gate of woven silverwood behind me hummed with power. I didn't loo
