The Silver Pact
The landscape offered no natural landmarks, only jagged spires of calcified bone, endless fields of razor-sharp black volcanic glass, and shallow pools of stagnant, glowing violet sludge that hissed whenever my protective light brushed near them.
The aquamarine quartz inside the Abyssal Anchor pulsed in rhythmic, four-second intervals. With every pulse, a sharp beam of blue light shot forward, cutting through the swirling violet mist and pointing directly toward a colossal obsidian mountain rising on the northern horizon
Through the deep, frayed channel of our mate bond, I felt the faint, agonizing vibration of Gideon’s heart. It was erratic, frantic, and smothered under heavy layers of cold