My Blood Wizard System
I step over the line and the ground hums under my bare feet like it recognizes its queen.
The sky answers.
A single bolt of perfect, soundless lightning strikes the circle dead center.
When the light fades, six matching marks glow on the inside of our left wrists:
A tiny blackbird in flight, carrying a single burning sun, wrapped in coyote tracks, circled by nine fox tails, framed by open wings and an open book.
Permanent.
Painless.
Ours.
Rowan smiles (small, fierce).
Rowan:
“Colleges can wait.
The world can wait.