One More Hot Contract with the Shadow Alpha
I descend the stairs in three leaps, my bare feet catching the steel risers.
The lab is dark, but the emergency chemical cells I installed decades ago still glow with a faint, translucent violet light. I move with a flawless, clinical speed, my hands knowing exactly which glass vials to grab from the titanium shelves. I snatch a jar of the concentrated, golden extract of the First Hearth’s root—the living amber of the South.
I slide my obsidian claw across my own right palm, cutting a deep, clean line across the creases of my skin. I squeeze my fist over a glass mortar, letting my fresh, High Priestess blood—dense with the radioactive frequency of the sun—mix with the golden oil.
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