Clara Dee Fuego Link

She looked at the black candle. Then at Mr. Cinder's patient, hungry smile. Then at the seven Ember Council members standing in the shadows, waiting to see if their little weapon would finally ignite into something monstrous.

And she burned the only thing worth burning. clara dee fuego

"Your village taught you to tame the fire," said a woman named Soot-Marie. "We will teach you to become it." She looked at the black candle

The explosion that followed cracked the salt flat open. A pillar of white-gold fire rose into the sky, visible from three villages away. The Ember Council screamed as their gifts were unmade—Soot-Marie's smoke turned to harmless fog, Mr. Cinder's violet flame guttered into a match-strike. Clara walked through the inferno untouched, cut her grandmother's bonds with a finger of heat so precise it left no mark on the skin, and carried the old woman out into the cold, clean air of dawn. Then at the seven Ember Council members standing