Broken by One, Desired by All
The metallic taste mingled with the magic on my tongue, creating a strange alchemy of pain and power.
"Careful, you idiot!" Daekan hissed, his voice suddenly sharp with a weird kind of alarm that I'd never heard from him before. It almost sounded like concern, though I knew better than to believe he actually cared about my wellbeing. "Pull it out from the right side of the stream! Make sure it's not from the left! The left is the destruction, the raw frost… if you touch that side, you'll freeze his heart before you can even touch his core! Pull from the golden vein on the right!"