"I can do this," Kira said, just loud enough for Lana to hear, but the words filled her with a sense of peace. Her granddaughter was an incredibly strong woman.
And even at only eighteen, Kira lifted her arm, the wrist wrapped in a bandage, as a sign of her resolve. Almost instantly, flames erupted above her hand, sizzling and cackling as though alive. Her powers were still strong, but now they were pure Protector. Even from her seat on the sideline, Lana felt the difference.
And the fire grew, expanding to encase the vampire's entire body, burning into cool flesh. Pavia didn’t flinch. That was how confident she was.
Kira nodded to Noah.
He brought a Punisher flame to his palm—it was darker, different, and completely foreign to Lana. But not to Kira.
Together they worked—two powers and two people.
At first, Pavia's flesh began to burn, but after awhile, the crusted skin flaked off to reveal smooth, pink, human flesh.
But Lana had stopped watching the vampire, and had shifted her attention to her granddaughter instead. A grin spread from ear to ear, brighter than the flames shooting from Kira's palms. Her eyes sparkled as they looked out at the crowd, at Tristan, and finally at Luke.
And one thought entered Lana's mind—she wished her daughter was there to see it, was alive to see what she had created, because Kira was perfect.
She had saved the world.
She had saved her people.
But most of all, she had proved exactly what Lana's daughter had been begging her mother to understand all along—that love would prevail.
Love of a world, of a people, of a vampire, and of a boy.
In the end, it was love and not fire that saved them.
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