Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
"One is divine. Holy fire, consecrated light, the particular blessing of the Saintess's order. The other is... older. Hungrier. The particular darkness that feeds on death rather than life, that grows stronger with each soul consumed rather than each soul saved."
I stared at the ash. At the way the two strands twisted around each other, braided like rope, intertwined like DNA, fused into something that was neither holy nor unholy but both, simultaneously, impossibly, the particular paradox of a power that should collapse under its own contradiction but instead grew stronger, more focused, more terrible.
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