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The woman’s resonance was still running through her like a current, a visceral warning. Helena managed to nod shakily. She should have realised: The woman was a vivimancer. Necromancy’s inverse twin, wielded on the living rather than the dead.
Usually, resonance was channelled into the alchemy of metals and inorganic compounds, allowing for transmutation or alchemisation. However, in a defective soul which rebelled against Sol’s natural laws, the resonance could be corrupted, enabling vivimancy—like what the woman had used on Helena—and the necromancy used to create necrothralls.
he looked as if he’d been bleached in moonlight.
petulance.
ascetic.
filigree
decanters.
illustrious,
miasma
“Ferron, will you come here?”
“You called?” His tone was sardonic.
altruistic
caustic,
monied
agile
convalescence
susurration
it’s the regeneration that I’m not sure about.
What does that mean?
alloyed.
tremulous.
refraction
pariah
tenement
inundated
invocation,
illustrious
circumnavigate
copse
mercurial.”
battalion.
idiosyncrasies
pragmatic.”
“Don’t die, Marino. I might miss you.”
sardonic,
antiquated,
arduous,
Extrapolating
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,”
A starved wolf would sate itself on anything.
corticospinal
inexorable.
moratorium
ungainliness;
“Don’t die, Kaine,”
brevity
But his eyes… She could tell— He was hers.
demonstrable
“So, what happens to you now?” Helena blinked. “Me?” “Yes.” He leaned forward and caught her chin, tilting her face so that the light from the windows fell across it, a pale slice of winter. “What happens to you?” “When you’re—gone?” He gave a short nod.
“Like you said, I’ve always been expendable, so maybe they’ll offer me to the next spy.” “Don’t joke. I want a real answer.” There was a sharp undercurrent to his voice.
Crowther’s eyebrows furrowed as he studied her. “I’ve spent a year working on the logistics of replacing you…I must admit, you are the most exceptional asset the Eternal Flame possesses. And I am sorry for that.”
