Bait for the devil
He raised the needle, but as he did, the obsidian pendant at my neck began to glow with a blinding, white-hot light—a light that shouldn’t exist in a dampening field.
The stone didn’t just glow; it shattered, and a voice—not Girard’s, but something much older—echoed in my brain.
“The blood is the key, Arielle. Give it the spark.”
I looked at the silver harpoon wound on my own hand, still weeping slightly. I didn’t think. I lunged forward, biting my own palm until the blood flowed, and slapped my hand against the silver frame holding Girard.
The reaction was a physical explosion.
The silver didn’t just burn; it conducted. My blood, charged with the Lien de Sang, hit the silver and created a c
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