Linked by Blood and Bone
Zeyric gasped aloud, his knees buckling, but Thalen caught him by the waist, anchoring him upright.
In return, Zeyric’s soul-storage opened wide, spilling its chaotic, unfiltered depths straight into Thalen’s pristine mental architecture. Thalen stumbled mentally, choking as a tidal wave of raw, burning amber mana—born of cold-water alleyways, cheap rum, abandoned tenements, and the grinding, desperate terror of absolute abandonment—crashed over his polished composure. It was a suffocating, blinding weight, a roaring furnace of sheer, untamed survival instinct that threatened to incinerate Thalen’s carefully constructed ego down to the ash.