Running Away with Alpha's Baby Bump
she began softly, “wasn’t a memory from the echo. It was a memory from the fragment that touched you.”
“Fragment,” Kael repeated, voice low with disgust. “Stop calling it that. It’s a parasite.”
“No,” Lira said gently, “it isn’t.”
Kael stiffened.
Lira continued, “Parasites take. They burrow, hollow, and consume. But this… this recognized her. It showed her something sacred. That’s not parasitic behavior.”
“What is it, then?” I whispered.
Lira inhaled slowly. “A God didn't just die that night. Something broke. A Well shatters when the being fueling it is overwhelmed or destroyed. The splash of magic is chaotic and devastating, but sometimes, pieces of that magic seek survival. They seek… sanc