He slowed as he arrived at the gardens, heart pounding at the sight that may lay before him. Her barrier crackled around the door, and he slid a hand over it, power curling around his fingertips.
What had she tried to keep out?
What had she tried to keep in?
She'd constantly criticized the limits her predecessors had placed on miko, claiming that their true power had come from the land itself and the elements around them, never realizing that her power was different because she was different.
She was not a star among many, striving to make her mark in the world.
She was the sun.