Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
I asked.
"And now the choice is made," the demon said, and its black eyes found mine with an intensity that felt like the pressure of deep water, the weight of stories that had been written and could not be unwritten. "The Blood Moon rises. The ritual requires thirteen. Twelve have been gathered, their souls harvested, their existence erased. The thirteenth is the vessel itself, the container that has held the demon, the final sacrifice that transforms consumption into opening."
It raised Elara's hands, the fingers that had touched my cheek with such desperate tenderness, and the crimson light of the congregation's charms flared from her palms, from her throat, from her eyes, a constellation
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