The Obsidian Covenant #1: The Rejected Mate's Ruin
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POV: Neoma
Rage was a heat-signature of red. This was white. Blinding, absolute, freezing white.
The first blast from the Devourer did not contain thermal energy. It contained absence. A beam of concentrated Void energy, siphoned from the biological rhythms of twelve siphoned hearts, slammed into the gravity shield I had erected.
The impact wave did not just rattle my skeletal structure; it invaded my marrow. My vision tunneled instantly, the edges of the courtyard dissolving into grey fractals. My lungs locked, the air trapped in my windpipe becoming a cold, solid weight.