Bound to the Death King
"You are losing your mind..."
Malakor stopped. He looked down at his own bare hands, which were beginning to tremble with fine, violent spastic twitches.
Vespera looked closely at his neck.
Her stomach dropped into a cold, sickening pit.
Despite the massive, intoxicating extraction they had shared on this very rug hours ago, thin, faint traceries of black veins were already beginning to reappear at the base of his throat. They were fainter than before, but they were creeping back with alarming, unnatural speed.