The Abandoned Luna's Return
But his eyes—the deep, human brown—were fixed on me with a desperate, terrifying intensity.
"You're bleeding," he whispered, his fingers hovering over the star-shaped scar on my chest.
I looked down. A thin trickle of crimson was tracing a path through the sand on my skin. It wasn't the violet ichor of the "Source." it was blood. Thick, dark, and smelling of iron.
"It's... it's just blood, Silas," I said, a hysterical laugh bubbling up in my throat. "It means the 'Format' worked. We aren't files anymore."