“You will serve me in all the ways my Order demands. You will feed me your most haunting fears, you will suffer so that I might thrive, and you will offer me your nightmares in any form I require,” he stated as the black Nightfire coiled tighter around us both, sinking into our flesh with a flicker and hiss of spitting flames until there was no sign of it anymore. It writhed through my blood, but no pain found me. All I felt was the heavy, heated weight of those fiery tethers snaking into my skin and settling there irrevocably. “And know this. You cannot ever kill me; this soul-tie will not
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