Chapter 125

"She'll be fine. She was born for this." Jon shrugged. "Are you saying this is her destiny?" I asked. "Yeah, I guess I am." "And our destiny?" "I think we've always been destined for this...but what we're fighting for, it's changed. If I didn't have you, I was going to win this war for glory. But now...I'm winning it so we can have a safe future. I don't care what it takes, you will survive this war." "No, Jon, we'll survive this war. We're both too stubborn to lose." I walked over to the window, and gasped, seeing snowflakes gently fall from the sky. I hated snow with a passion€I felt like it took away all the colors and smells of autumn, my favorite season. Looking out at all the snow, I knew it was going to be a cold winter€harsh like the war we were about to fight. I didn't want to think about how much I had changed over the past year. I had done enough of that already. I knew I wasn't the same girl that left Eastern Claw a year before. I knew I had changed and I knew it was for