Linked by Blood and Bone
"We'll figure it out. The ritual, the Blood-Weavers, all of it."
"You heard Starwyn," Thalen said, finally raising his head. His ice-blue eyes looked exhausted, the fierce arrogance replaced by a raw, naked vulnerability that startled Zeyric. "Twenty years ago, a student died from this. What makes you think we're special enough to beat it?"
"Because she didn't have us," Zeyric said, offering a small, crooked smirk that didn't quite reach his eyes. "She only had herself. We've got twice the mana pool and twice the stubbornness."