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fireball in the shape of a bird. You are not a fire talent, your flame is alive, you are a phoenix. Believe it. Now try again.”
    She closed her eyes and touched her talent, as she brought up the flames she pictured the large boulder in the clearing and ordered the fire to protect. She opened her eyes and there were eight birds made of pure flame, hovering like hummingbirds, around the rock.
    She was no longer controlling what she conjured, the last five times they had just stood there doing nothing until the magic she imbued into them went out, she crossed her fingers as Sally raised her hand.
    Sally cast five air balls at the stone while she held her breath, at the last moment, the birds dove and intercepted the air, causing them to flare and grow in size. She couldn’t help the grin that grew on her face, she had always been able to control fire, but this was different, she had actually imbued her flames with her will, they were living flames.
    She gaped as Sally took them all out with water, then turned to her.
    “Good job, but let’s make sure you can do it in your sleep, only way to be sure is practice, so do it again.”
    She sighed, she had after all asked for real training. She closed her eyes…
    “No, do it with your eyes open.”
    She growled, opened her eyes, and while looking at the rock, summoned her flames…
    *
    Trina was annoyed and a bit concerned. Justin had not shown up at her door for the last two hours, she knew she had miscalculated. After the way she had humbled herself for him, any other man… Or at least, any other man in Uleni, would have his cock down her throat already. Was he just different? Or were things different outside Uleni?
    She hadn’t been briefed about any social differences, and it barely seemed possible, but were woman afforded more respect in Abelaweth, or was it just him, or some combination of the two? She had expected to have him in her mouth by now, and when he filled it with his seed she would have had a dagger in his vitals while she sucked out the rest. It was her preferred way to kill, men never defended themselves during orgasm.
    And it kind of got her off, the power to give the ultimate pleasure and death in the same moment. Her body shivered as she thought about it. She knew she was a little twisted that way. But the way she saw it, if a man was dumb enough to think a smile was an invitation to order her to her knees, he well deserved it.
    She wasn’t always this way. It had been her lot in life to be used by men, her beauty a curse. When Ross had found out her talent, he started training her as an assassin. She would never be used again, the kill put her back in control. She even enjoyed it now, when they ordered her, took from her without permission, because from now on that was part of her plan and she would have her revenge at the finish.
    Her initial ploy may have failed, but she had been trained in many other ways to kill, she was the best. But she was worried about making another bad assumption. She had never had a target outside Uleni before. The Flame of Cytherea was also extremely dangerous, and she wasn’t stupid enough to believe all the women around him were weak, like a man would.
    She decided just to be safe, she would spend some time here, study her prey first. Besides, she hadn’t even seen the Uleni witch yet, who was her secondary target. She just hoped the rotting carcass of the real acolyte wouldn’t be found before she was done. She had hidden it well, but sometimes fate was a bitch.

Chapter 3
    Lian walked into his master’s rooms, he wasn’t happy with the report he just got, and he was sure mage Riese would be pissed off about it.
    Riese looked up. “Report.”
    Lian replied, “Our spy indicated the assassin has reached the target hours ago, yet he still lives.”
    Riese frowned, “How up to date is this?”
    He said, “Fifteen minutes? I had one of the travel mages on it.”
    Riese sighed. “I knew sending a woman would be a bad