The Wife Who Returned
She was stronger than me right now and we both knew it and I fought her anyway, using everything I had left, which was not as much as I needed, and the binding went on my right wrist with a finality that I felt in my chest, and then she grabbed my left and I thought, this is not happening, this is not how this goes, and then the left went too and I was back in the chair and Maribel was breathing above me with her ruined nose and her borrowed eyes and her complete absence of anything that resembled remorse.
Adrian's voice had started, low and rhythmic, words in something that wasn't any language I recognized, and the symbols on the floor began to change.
Not glow exactly. More like become, as