The Devil's Obsession
"Not deeper in your chest. Deeper in the frequency.
Below the resonance of the power, there's a second resonance. Different quality. More still.
Like something archived."
Aurora listened.
She had been learning, over the past several days, to listen with more than her ears — to
use the ember as a sense rather than a source, pointing it at things and receiving the
frequency they returned.
She pointed it inward.
And she found it.
It was exactly as Seraphine had described — still and archived, the specific quality of
something recorded rather than living. Dense with information the way a very small very heavy
object is dense. Not accessible in the way ordinary memory was accessible, not somethin