The Silver Pact
"My core is pure."
"Your core was cleansed by a temporary spark of wildfire," Seline corrected, taking another step closer, her voice dropping into a intimate, silk-like whisper that carried across the glade. "But the lineage curse of the Ironclaw runs deep in your bone marrow, Gideon. It will return. It always returns... unless you bind your blood to a House of pure celestial light."
She raised her left hand into the air.
A glowing, rectangular parchment materialized above her open palm, framed by floating runes of ancient blood-magic and bound by a heavy wax seal bearing the impression of two crossed hawk wings. The air in the glade grew thick, heavy with the undeniable, ancient weight of