Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
But Seraphina's light - her true light, the golden radiance that poured from her palms when she healed - revealed what the scrubbing had missed, what the holy water had diluted but not destroyed, what the blessed salt had touched but not purified.
Traces. Residue. The particular ash that remains when something burns that should not burn, when something sacred is turned to fuel, when the fire meant to illuminate becomes the fire that consumes.
She extended her hands, and the light intensified, turning the air to honey, to amber, to the particular viscosity of sacred power made visible. The ash responded. It rose, twisted, formed shapes that were not quite letters, not quite symbols, not quite
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