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Doña Sofía staggered back, the smoke dissipating. Her face, for the first time, was not cruel. It was old. And tired. And maybe, just maybe, sorry.

The power didn’t explode. It extended . She raised her hands, not in anger, but in intent. The broken floorboards wove themselves back together. The shattered stained glass flew into place, reforming the image of a weeping saint. And the three hunters? Their guns turned into sunflowers. Their flashlights became maracas. They stood there, bewildered, shaking maracas in the dark. grachi

The next morning, she woke up to find her hair floating. Not in a cute, wind-blown way. It was levitating, a dark curly halo of static defiance. She screamed, slapped it down, and it sprang right back up. Her mother, a pragmatic nurse, chalked it up to “humidity and teenage hormones.” Doña Sofía staggered back, the smoke dissipating