Adara is no ordinary teenager with a special talent. Her soul is frozen and iced, which is how it's supposed to be. But after her usual daily meditation in the woods, she encounters something completely new. Not only is her heart a block of ice, but...
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I step out into the bitterness of the cold and immediately locate Raven. She was... In the battlefield? Once I see Daniel it all makes sense. Daniel, the Ice Realms so-called 'Badass' was going to definitely get his ass kicked by a girl. I almost felt sorry for him. I lean up against the battlefield's wall and watch the duel.
I spot Simon in the distance propped up on a tree. HIs gaze falls on me for a split second then he goes back to watching the match.
" En Garde pretty boy," Raven says and attacks him, their swords making contact with a hard CLING.
Daniel was swift and powerful but he wasn't as ingenious as Raven. She smirks and stoops down under his sword and hits the back of his knee. He yells out in pain as his leg buckles and he sinks to the ground. He snarls in impediment, clutches his sword that was buried in the snow and gets to his feet.
"You know. One of my buddies told me if you asked kindly you'd do the deed with them... Pft! What a..."
Don't you say it!
"...Slut" he says.
Raven then waves her sword, which cuts him on his chest and tears open his thin shirt. She descends down and swings her leg out and kicks his feet. He plunges to the ground with an unyielding crack. He grunts and groans in pain.
She mounts over him and spits on his face.
"Next time you'll think twice before you decide to call me that," she says and saunters away smiling in conquest.
"You did great," I say.
She leaps over the wall and stands in front of me. "That bastard deserved to be put in his place."
Raven was tall and skinny with fair skin. Her tangible red cheeks and strawberry red lips were mesmerizing. Every guy adored her as well as girls who wished they acquired her physical features. I was, unfortunately, one of them.
"How'd 'the talk' with your mom go?" she asks as we stroll into the Winter Woods.
"It actually went well. She reasoned with me and said I have another year until I have to be crowned queen." I say.
"Ah, queen. You are so lucky, Adara. Being able to become royalty? I'm jealous, to be honest." she says. I look at her, completely bewildered.
Raven? Jealous? Of me? With her great looks and such battle experience, how could she be envious of me?
"Really you wouldn't want it, Raven. It's not as fun as you think."
"Are you kidding? How could you now want it?"
My blood brews and I capture my wrist in my hand. My hand burns and my anger spreads it like wildfire.
"Because I just don't!" I growl and she recoils away from me.
