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<p>...My body was on fire.</p> <p>The black flame crept from my feet and moved upward.</p> <p>My legs, my torso, my weapon-held hand, and my neck.</p> <p>It happened so quickly yet excruciatingly slowly.</p> <p>I felt both terrified and calm at the same time.</p> <p>The fire was both cold and hot on my skin.</p> <p>I watched it all happen, and before I disappeared, I saw him knelt beside me.</p> <p>Sick bastard. Was he enjoying watching me burn?</p> <p>I refused to look away. If he thought he could intimidate me, he should have known me better. I would stare him down, or at least die trying, until my last breath swallowed this fire.</p> <p>"Goodbye," he mouthed the words to me as I became completely covered in flames.</p> <p>Tears and blood.</p> <p>My tears and my blood.</p> <p>I burned.</p> <p>***</p> <p>Leah, a 16-year-old girl with a terminally ill sister, receives the highly coveted Invitation. Becoming a Rhombic, a monster hunter, could be the only chance to make their lives better and even save her sister. However, when she becomes a Rhombic, Leah is devastated to learn that she is unprecedentedly weak.</p> <p>But an accidental encounter presents her with a weapon that could change everything.</p>
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