Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
"Come and become what you must become. Come and write the ending that you choose, not the ending that was written for you."
I stepped forward, my hand finding the shard that I had carried since the catacombs, the Duskbane relic that answered to revenant blood, that hummed with a frequency of boundaries and blood and the maintenance of what others would break.
The Blood Moon rose invisible beyond the chapel's walls, its approach measured in heartbeats, in silver tendrils, in the weight of three days that had become two, that had become one, that had become this final moment when everything would change.