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Elder Thomas

“Very well,” the Matriarch says, it’s the first time she is speaking since I came in. Her voice calm in the way a sharpened knife is calm before it cuts. “It seems we have no more use for you.”

The bottom falls out of my stomach.

“No, no, wait—please—” I stumble back a step, hands raised, heart pounding so hard I hear it in my ears.

She lifts a single, elegant hand.

The pain is instant.

Agony like fire and ice crawling under my skin, peeling me apart.

I scream — a raw, inhuman sound that echoes from the walls — but it does not move them.

I fall to my knees, every nerve set ablaze.

I clutch my head, my chest, my very skin, as the power they had given me — the stolen strength, the unnatural vitality, the binding magic — begins to tear itself out of me.

Receiving their gift had been an ecstasy beyond imagining.

But this… this is agony.

A slow, exquisite peeling of my soul.

I feel it with every cell in my body.

The youth draining from me.

Wrinkles begin to fiss
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