Compilation Of Short Stories
At its three points, they stood.
Marcella, her hair a cascade of obsidian waves against the deep crimson of her robe, watched with ancient, hungry eyes. Odessa, pale and severe as a marble statue, met her gaze across the circle, a challenge and an invitation in the lift of her chin. Between them, Connor stood bare-chested, his body humming with a power that was still new, still wild. The curse, a parasitic vine of dark magic, was a cold ache in his bones, a threat to them all. This was the only way to burn it out.
“The convergence begins,” Marcella’s voice was a low thrum, like cello strings played in a distant room. “The threads of the curse are tightest now. We must be quicker.”