Inside the stasis tank, she’d been constantly aware of them clamped around her wrists. Their existence had persisted along the edge of her consciousness, an inescapable presence that stifled her resonance, preventing any transmutational manipulation that might have let her escape. Even in the tank, she could feel the lumithium inside them. By its nature, lumithium bound the four elements of air, water, earth, and fire together, and in that binding, resonance was created.
