In my stories, power is never a gift without consequence.
It doesn’t arrive to save the hero. It arrives to test them. Every character who touches power in The Eye of the Hawk pays a price — not always in blood, but in certainty, innocence, or belief.Strength demands choice, and choice leaves scars.
Nathan does not become powerful because he is destined to rule.

He becomes powerful because he must decide who he is willing to become — and what he is willing to lose.
Power, in this world, does not corrupt instantly.
It reveals. It exposes fear behind courage, ambition behind duty, and compassion behind restraint. The greatest danger is not what power allows a character to do — but what it convinces them is necessary.
That is the true cost.

Not domination. Not victory.
But the quiet moment when a character realizes they can never return to who they were before. This is why my characters hesitate. Why they doubt. Why they suffer. Because power without conscience is destruction — and conscience without courage is silence. And somewhere between the two, the story is born.