The hunter's weight crashed into her with bone-crushing force, claws seeking her throat with lethal precision. But before pain could register, before death could claim her, the power that had been building in her chest finally erupted.
Fire that was not fire exploded outward from her core—a shockwave of silver-blue energy that defied every law of nature she had ever known. It wasn't the warm flame of hearth and home, but something far more primal: frostfire, ice and heat fused into a force that could both freeze and burn simultaneously.
The hunter's scream cut off abruptly as the energy engulfed him. Where the light touched his fur, frost crystals bloomed even as the hair singed and crackled. His flesh split with the sound of breaking ice, revealing bone that glowed white-hot for an inst
