Third person POV

The room had no walls, at least none that the eye could find. Darkness stretched in every direction, not quite black and not empty, but endless and ancient. Strange symbols glowed beneath the floor in intricate circles of silver and gold, and the letters moved across the ground as if they were alive.

At the center of it all lay a body—still and silent. It belonged to a young woman, with silver flames drifting gently around her skin before fading into nothing. Beside her knelt another woman, her face hidden behind a long veil that covered her eyes completely. Yet somehow she saw everything. Her fingers moved...