Triple Temptation
"I tried to save them! I tried!"
"Zane! Snap out of it!" Blaze’s voice was a distant roar, but even Blaze was swaying, his russet eyes clouded with the memories of the wars he had started in his youth.
The psychic hunger was absolute. Every trauma, every scar, every moment of pure, unadulterated grief within a five-mile radius was being harvested by the Heir. The child was feeding on the "darkness" of the living to build its own physical form. With every memory Zane relived, the violet light in the distance grew taller, more solid, turning the sky into a bruised, pulsing mess.