Aetherion Academia #1: Shadows of Rebirth
I pushed myself upright, the shard burning in my palm, the contract scar screaming against my wrist, the Duskbane blood responding to the dissolution with a desperate attempt to maintain boundaries that were already becoming fluid.
Elara descended from the altar, her feet touching the stone without weight, without substance, as if the ground itself had become optional. She moved through the gathered demons, and they parted for her, pressed their foreheads to the stone again, offered their devotion with a fervor that looked almost like love, almost like terror, almost like the absolute surrender of wills that had never been entirely their own.
“The Academy,” she said, and her voice carried th
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