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A quick glance around left her one choice.

She grasped the lamp beside her, and slung the hot oil at the crowd. The soldiers lit up in hellfire.

The smell of burning flesh filled Mayati’s nose, and then their screams died. Burnt bodies fell to the ground at her feet. Her toes burned.

Mayati hissed and stumbled back until her spine found the wall. Before her, flames licked the marble walls, only to die out when they found nothing else to burn, but much of the fire clung onto the corpses.

Smoke surrounded her. 

Mayati gasped for breath, but couldn’t find any air. Her vision began to blur, just as the remaining flames thinned. Then, on the other side of the hellfire, a shadow took the form of a man, and he stepped through—as if fire were nothing more than fog.

“Gael?” Mayati asked, because she couldn’t be sure.

The man before her had black eyes—as dark as coal—and blood streaked down one cheek.

When he met her eyes, he looked right into her soul.

Mayati swallowed fear. “Gael? It’s me. Mayati.” 

Finally, he seemed to recognize her, and his stare cleared. “Are you hurt?” 

He took a few deep breaths, as if doing so would calm him and keep him from reverting back to whatever creature he had transformed into. 

“What are you?” she asked, agape, because she longer knew who stood before her.

Was he a prince? Or a demon?

One could never be sure.