Rejected But Elevated
“You lie.”
“Look at it!” She held the Seal aloft, and in the moonlight, the carvings seemed to deepen, to pulse with a faint, inner light. “Those are Greyer binding runes. It was made for a world where our kinds aren’t at war. It was made for someone like me.”
“It belongs to the Vale!” he roared, the spell of her words broken.
“Then come and claim it!”
She channeled everything, fear, desperation, the dregs of her own power and the Seal’s wild echo into her legs. She launched herself upward. Her fingers scraped, then caught the rusty iron grate.
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