SERAPHINA’S POV
The echoes of the horns reverberated through my entire body as the thunderous voice wasted no time in announcing:
“And the champions of the Latent Spark Trials are—OTS Team One!”
The cheers that followed rattled my bones.
My team erupted in stunned cries, and for one heart-stopping second, it felt as though my soul had lifted from my body. Like I was floating high, high above, watching this—this impossible thing—happen to someone else.
We’d…won.
I knew we’d been the first team to pass the last Trial, and, technically, I’d known what that meant.
But knowing was one thing. Hearing it broadcast to the world was something entirely different.
The central screen blazed with our images—us, battered and bruised, crossing the portal in slow-motion replay.
