The Red Mark
His fingers brushed the cloth, tugging it down just enough to reveal the full shape of the Mark.
The symbol glowed faintly, as if responding to his attention. A spiral of intersecting lines and curves, wrong and beautiful, like something that would make you sick if you stared too long.
He stared.
The room held its breath.
“What does it mean?” one of the men asked behind him.
The leader didn’t answer.
Instead, very slowly, he reached out and pressed the pad of his thumb lightly against the Mark.
Pain tore through me.
I gasped, the sound ripped from my lungs as heat exploded across my skin, radiating out from his touch like a shockwave. The symbol burned brighter, the lines pulsing red beneath
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