The Phantom Queen
"Fine. But just promise to be honest with your opinion about it."
"Val, just fire it away," she prompted impatiently.
"Alright. The Nexum must be performed under the lunar eclipse. It's an ancient ritual of our kind to bind two essences in one. And it involves heating up our bodies with each other to activate the inactive core inside us. In that way, we could merge our essences, bond them together and the magic of the lunar will lock them in one. That's the best explanation I can come up with anyway. But in summary, it's making love of two mates under the lunar eclipse."