Chapter 27
Before reaching out to the alien, Asahi linked to the Goddess inside him, bringing to the fore a strong desire to join forces—and knowledge flooded his entire being. The scene they had witnessed in the mirror made much more sense now.
The entity that had shattered Aminta’s original form was a tainted symbiot. Symbiots, Asahi learned, were the living gold companions of the Valdier, a dragon-shifting species. These golden companions were healers and shapeshifters, and they were born in the River of Life that contained the essence of the species many believed to be Goddesses. The symbiot that had attacked Aminta, however, had been perversely altered by the power-hungry Valdier outcast, Raffvin Reykill. Together they had waged war on the Goddesses in the sacred cavern.
To survive
