The Price Of Fate
And something sharp and grounding, rosemary.
She dropped them into the bowl of water and swirled them clockwise, murmuring under her breath in a language I didn’t recognise. Not words meant for show. Words meant for focus. The water’s surface trembled. Not dramatically. Just a faint ripple, like a breath passing through it. My throat tightened.
“You feel that?”
“I… saw it.”
“You’re watching too hard. You can see a storm and still not feel rain.”
She set the bowl aside and lit the resin stick. It smoked slowly, releasing a scent that reminded me of clean stone after lightning, sharp, ancient, almost metallic. She waved it around me in a circle, smoke curling over my shoulders, my hair, my han
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