Eternal Malediction
A second phrase appeared:
“Only the broken may be whole.”
This time, the altar revealed a set of symbols, spirals, ratios, and constellations. They rearranged themselves constantly, never settling. Kieran watched, trying to find the pattern.
Kieran stared at them for a long time, looking for anything different in all of them.
Then he saw it; actually, it is better said that he felt it. One symbol repeated, not in shape but in rhythm; it pulsed in time with his breath.
He reached out to it and touched it; the symbol froze, and the altar opened. Inside was a single object, bound in a frost-coated bark, etched with the golden spiral.
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