"Fire is your element, Alyx." Mom carefully set up a candle on the floor between us. "You'll learn to harness its energy easier than you will the other elements..." Developing her talent to manipulate the elements could be easy. It should be easy, but Alyx instead chooses to turn her back on her tragic past and her family's talent to be a "normal" teen. Once a fire is lit, though, its energy never dies. It burns away ignorance, allowing truth to shine through. And when that happens in the face of the solstice, when Alyx opens up and allows that fire to burn, she becomes a magnet for much bigger things... and bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. When high school wrestler, Seth Thompson, shows up to school with another soul riding shotgun, Alyx's fire burns brighter, and it has nothing to do with how hot Seth really is...