CAGED BY THE LYON
"Say we accept the hearing is the convergence. What actually happens if we're standing there when it activates and we're not ready?"
"According to this," Rian said, tapping the old page in front of him, "the working pulls the strength directly out of every marked bloodline present. Not slowly. All at once, the second the convergence completes." He hesitated. "Some records suggest it's not survivable for the weaker bloodlines caught in it. The stronger ones might just be left permanently diminished. Human, in every way that matters, except the parts that still remember what they used to be."
"And the counter," my father said. "Blood freely given, from every bloodline, together, before it comp