Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
I screamed, and my voice carried the weight of every patient she had healed, every wound she had closed, every life she had touched with hands that trembled but never stopped.
The crimson claw had not killed her. It had embedded itself in her chest, not as physical wound but as something deeper, something that pulsed with forbidden magic and began to spread tendrils through her barrier magic, corrupting what she was from the inside out.
She hit the stone with a sound that was not merely physical, her golden light flickering, dimming, the corruption spreading through her channels like poison through water.
I caught her before the stone could complete its claim, my hands finding her shoulders,
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