Skyrim Repairing The Phial Novels & Stories

And stayed open. I pulled free of Tormund's grip. Staggered back. The gold light was wrong now, dimmer on the left side and too bright on the right, uneven in a way it had never been. Something had been taken that was not enough to close the gateway but was also not nothing. Sable reached me. Her hands on my arms, steadying. "The ritual," I said. "Failed," she said. Quiet and certain and sorry. "The sequence cannot be reinitiated with the seal in this state. It needs time to stabilize before another attempt is possible." She looked at me carefully. "Hours at minimum. Possibly longer."