A Contract With My Demon
"But we're out of our league. This is High Heaven energy. If we touch it, we don't just burn. We cease to have ever existed."
"There is one way," Vane said, his voice cold and analytical even in the face of annihilation. "The Paradox. You are a Half-Arbiter. We are the Void. If we don't try to contain the light, but instead use our darkness as a lens... we can fire it back at her."
"Do it," Elara commanded.
She felt the two brothers shift. In her internal vision, she saw them grab the white-hot core of the Star-Fall. They didn't try to swallow it. They wrapped their shadows around it, twisting the light until it turned a bruised, lethal shade of ultraviolet.