Extraits

“The fire can’t harm you, because it’s inside you. It’s part of your essence, your very soul. Of course you know that people are made up of water, bones, tissues and organs. You have all those things in your body too, but the fire is in there as well; it’s just hiding. But it is in there all the same.” She poked her bloody finger into my stomach. “That’s why you weren’t injured during that horrible accident. All the others had to try to explain it away somehow, but you knew the truth in your heart all along. You just couldn’t face it or didn’t know how to. You were in the fire and the only thing it did was make you stronger. You are what you are and you can’t deny it.”

Her voice was soft, yet it boomed in my head.

In a shaky voice, I asked her, “What am I?”

Spoiler(cliquez pour révéler)“A Watcher, my dear, you are a Watcher.”

Then I remembered what else the priest had said. You must thrust Fate. She is on your side.

Whether or not the priest was insane was still up in the air, but I knew a few things for certain. Mom and Dad were dead, and I had survived an explosion that should have cremated me. I needed answers and since Father Palano had disappeared into thin air after the funeral, I didn’t have any options. Besides, I had a feeling that Aunt Ila might actually know what was going on with me.

Thrust Fate.

With hardly conscious effort, I said, “Okay.”