Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
Its tone hardened, just a touch.
“Everything you think is yours,” it whispered, “everything you touch, every fragment of you—already cataloged, numbered, claimed. You are nothing without my consent.”
The offer was horrifying.
It was also, in some ugly corner of my tired brain, unbelievably tempting.
Something brushed my hand.
Not ink.
Not text.
Warmth.
Fingers, rough and calloused, groping blindly through the void until they closed around mine.
Corvin.