Alchemised

by SenLinYu

By its nature, lumithium bound the four elements of air, water, earth, and fire together,

and in that binding, resonance was created.

Helena thought she was about to watch another rib cage be torn open.

They had formed the very first iron guild shortly after Paladia’s founding. Iron was one of the eight traditional metals associated with the eight planets: lead for Saturn, tin for Jupiter, iron for Mars, copper for Venus, quicksilver for Mercury, silver for Luna, lumithium for Lumithia, and gold for Sol.

undeniably been used to heal them. In her right palm there were more

the governor, Fabian Greenfinch, was having built in honour of Morrough as New Paladia’s liberator. It would be unveiled the following

remnant from long ago. Spirefell was much

“No,” he said. “This is how we win. This is how we’ve always won. My father, my grandfather, all the Principates going all the way back to Orion. They won by trusting that good would triumph over evil, and I have to do the same.”

“I promised I’d do anything for you.” She curled her fingers into a fist. “Maybe you didn’t realise how far I was willing to go.”

Alchemisation, the transformation of one metal into another, was the most difficult form of alchemy.

Curiosity bloomed in his eyes, real interest rather than the feigned attention he’d employed during the party. “You’re full of surprises.” “Do you say that to every girl?” The words popped out thoughtlessly.

“I will die before I lose her,” Ferron said, his grip tightening.

“Going somewhere, Lancaster?” Lancaster’s lungs gave a wet rattle. “I assumed you wouldn’t mind if I borrowed her, seeing how you let Aurelia out to play. I’m the one who caught her. She should be mine.” “She’ll never be yours.”

“Oh, Marino.” His thumb trailed along her neck, following the scar below her jaw. “If I’d known what pain you’d cause me, I never would have taken you.”

Her vision had gone red as blood flooded down her face, and she was screaming. All the guilt and anguish that she had pressed down swallowed her whole. She screamed as if she could shatter the world with it. She wanted to be done.