Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
The frequency of death rose higher, sharper, a note that threatened to tear itself free of his flesh.
I pressed the crystal against his chest and spoke the binding words. The Duskbane sigils flared silver, crimson, violet, and his body arched against the sand as the contract sank into his skin, into his blood, into the demonic heritage that made him valuable and vulnerable in equal measure.
When it was done, he breathed. Shallow, weak, but steady. The frequency of death receded, replaced by the hum of binding, the resonance of service, the connection that would allow me to find him anywhere, summon him when needed, demand the knowledge he possessed.*
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