Phoenix's Fire

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I rose from the ashes of their lies.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For most of my life it was always the three of us. Callah Meri and me - Ayla. Three girls growing up among those who called themselves the Righteous - but are actually the furthest thing from it. In desperation I took a risk. One that let me see the truth.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now my need for revenge is burning inside me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meri always tried to be perfect. Obediently she bent herself to fit the rules but it was never good enough. She still suffered. Giving up - with nothing left to lose - she tells a single lie.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Little does she know that will light the fuse.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Thankfully Callah knows how to play the game. I always thought she was the most pious among us but I was wrong. She learned to manipulate them the same way they tried to do with her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They tried to tear us apart. They taught us that friendships were wrong but together we will become stronger than they can imagine. I can't do this on my own - but I don't need to. I have them.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Together we will make sparks fly but what price will we pay when everything explodes?</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>