2021 | Soulincontrol Lily

Nothing.

Lily stared at her reflection in the dark window. The girl looking back had red eyes, a bruised cheek, and a crack in her armor that she couldn’t schedule her way out of. For a long moment, she hated that girl. Then, slowly, she began to understand. soulincontrol lily

Her hand shook. She let it.

Her hand remained frozen. She tried to stand. Her legs didn’t respond. For the first time in her life, Lily Chen screamed—not in pain, but in pure, unfiltered rage at the universe for daring to take what she had worked so hard to build. Nothing

The applause was not a color in her planner. It was just noise, beautiful and ungovernable—and hers. For a long moment, she hated that girl

Lily Chen had never lost a fight. Not because she was the strongest or the fastest, but because she never entered one she hadn’t already won in her mind.

She found the neurologist’s card in her backpack and, on impulse, called the office. “I’d like to talk about that polar bear,” she said.