Incubus Reborn: Sleepless promise
His breath was shallow, his eyes dark with pain.
Malrec staggered toward the edge, bleeding and laughing. “You see? Even love cannot escape the curse.”
Saraphina rose slowly, her hair lifting in the wind, her eyes bright with fire. “No,” she whispered. “Love rewrites it.”
She stretched both hands toward him, and the river itself rose—golden fire mingling with water until it became something else entirely. It surged forward, wrapping Malrec in a whirl of light. His scream was swallowed by the torrent, his body dissolving like ink in sunlight.