CW: Violence, animal attack, fire, burn wounds, fictional animal death, blood, mildly graphic death

I slipped out of Sam’s safe house long before the sun would rise, ignoring my desperate need for rest. Sam’s offer to help me was appealing, but his insistence that I leave my Spark intact broke the deal for me. I was ridding myself of these Powers before I harmed anyone else, and no one was going to stop me. I wasn’t looking for power; I couldn’t care less about that. I was looking for freedom.

CW: Claustrophobic situation
“Are you going to put me down at some point?” I half-glared at the Demon who had saved me from certain death as we soared over the edge of a forest full of more trees than I had ever seen.

Samuel raised an eyebrow at me. “If you want me to put you down right now, I can, but it’s quite a fall from up here. It would be a shame to kill the person I just rescued.”