Kaelen tried to drop the book. His hands—no longer quite hands—wouldn’t let go. Vesper stood behind him, her dead lips moving. She wasn’t speaking to him. She was speaking for it .
Kaelen smiled. It felt wrong on his face. “Change is power.” Way of Corruption -v0.24- By Shadow Blade
The second node, Shadowstep , cost him the memory of his mother’s face. He didn’t notice at first. He only knew, one morning, that the lullaby in his head had no singer. Kaelen tried to drop the book