The Alpha's Warlock
Goody two-shoes mages like Nate treated necromancy and blood magic like anathema, but blood and bone held power like no other substances on Earth.
All my magic, all of my life force — I tore it out of myself and slammed it into the ancient tree, begging it to wake, to speed up, to burst out of its narrow track of lethargic, incremental growth and movement. To leap into action, in a way trees decidedly didn’t.
For a long minute, too long, I thought I was throwing my energy away, that it would be absorbed into the tree’s massive life and dissipated into the earth.