Raphael's POV:
She sat right under the biggest Chilila tree I had ever seen.
Her blood-red hair blew wildly through the breeze. She had never looked this free when I had seen her before she left. And at the same time, she looked sad; she felt sad.
I hated that I could feel her hurt being so close to her now. She hadn't accepted our bond, so I couldn't thoroughly understand her thoughts or feelings, but I could still feel the surface-level stuff.
I watched as she swirled rings of fire in her hand, forcing them in front of her and turning them into nothing more than steam.
Wow, she had learned more about her gift, I thought to myself.
I watched her through the binoculars for hours. I watched her giggle at her own mistakes, the way she simultaneously pressed her brows together when she was frustrated, the way her presence exhumed and demanded an audience with every small display of magic.