Cherish Me, Daddy
" Noom, the ancient spirit that had lain dormant within me, was no longer confused. He was awake. Fully.
The Dreadlord rose slowly, dusting himself off as if refusing to acknowledge the impact. His violet eyes were no longer amused; they were calculating. He pressed the black jade pendant at his throat again.
“No,” Lucen rasped somewhere behind him, still struggling to rise.
The pendant glowed. Dark energy erupted, twisting, swirling, forming a vortex of shadow that spiraled toward me like a living storm. It screamed, crackled, reeked of something ancient and corrupted. The vortex slammed into the golden sphere.