---- Could this be the resonance of magical souls? But how...


    if Ss isnt even a sorcerer? ---- Maybe it was because of that strange magic flowing through his veins.


    This healing session was also my chance to investigate that dark energy inside him.


    Textended my hands close to his chest, Ss standing within the runes, and closed my eyes to start weaving enchantments.


    In my mind, I visualized green threads of energy, threading them through his pores, prating theyers of skin, repairing the superficial wounds and tending to the deeper ones.


    linsisted over and over, but the abuse was so extensive it was impossible to heal him in just one session.


    Sweat pooled on my forehead, and the dark gown clung to me like a second skin.


    My legs began to numb, but the worst came when the enchantment reached the area where the dark energy was most concentratedthat cursed, blinded eye.


    The sorcery magic I siphoned from Electras body cautiously approached the dark energy swirling inside Ss.


    Twanted to know what it wasit felt like a parasite inhabiting his body.


    Who put this inside him? Lucrecia? Ithad to be.


    But suddenly, things spiraled out of control.


    ---- That magic grabbed hold of the energy fibers I was using from Electra, started attacking her magic, trying to devour and consume it.


    I wanted to pull back, but the energy inside Ss felt like a bottomless vortex, a whirlpool sucking all the life energy out of Electras body.


    My head felt like it was about to explode, my chest ached horribly, and Electra fought inside her prison as her magic was drained.


    Tcant let this continue! My breathing grewbored; I wanted to open my eyes, to tell him to stop, but I felt frozen in ce.


    Just a piece of meat being swallowed by that darkness.


    If Electra dies, what will happen to me? I''ll die too! Then I started to fight with my own strength.


    I unleashed part of, the magic I had hiddenthe dark power inherited from my ancestors.


    The Selenias had blood from werewolves, vampires, and witches, but one part always dominated over the others; I inherited the magic, and not just any magicit was also ck magic.


    The two powerful energies shed and battled, fought fiercely, vibrant sparks likely flying around us, and then, all of a sudde calm.


    I dont know how, but I went from absolute madness and desperation to an almost perfect harmony.


    ---- The cursed magic inside Sss body intertwined with my own magot Electras, which it rejected.


    It felt as though both darknesses were caressing, recognizing, and iming each other.


    ss, I murmured, opening my trembling eyelids, exhausted, sweat pouring down my face.


    My legs gave out for a second; Electras body wasnt as strong as.


    my own.


    1 fell forward into cold but protective arms that caught me.


    My hands clung to his shoulders.


    lifted my head and met that mysterious gaze, his face no longer hidden by the mask.


    I stared straight into that bottomless abyss in his eye and felt like the abyss was staring right back at meintensely, obsessively, crazed, and dangerous.


    But I wasnt afraid.


    My magic, now fully under my control again, felt restless and stirred.


    It wanted to try again; it wanted to merge once more with the madness, the pain, the darkness of this deeply wounded man.


    Irested my head against his chest without speaking, just listening to the thundering beat of that powerful heart.


    Just one second, Ss, please dont push me away.


    I just need one second to think, to understand what mysteries you''re hiding.