Chapter 16 – Fault Over Guilt
Brandon didn't remember much after everything went dark.
Some small sensations trickled across his mind. The feeling of movement and of long warm arms cradling him. And Pain. Something worse than the hunger of the Flame, but far less pointed. This pain spread all around his body, his soul. He felt like something deep inside of him had been beaten with a rod. For a week.
Wards. Brandon knew this feeling the second it settled over him. The feeling of having every ounce of his strength and his will broken in two. It was utterly frightening that his father and now the other alchemists' had exercised this total dominion over him.
Brandon fought to stand up but everything was second to the Wards. The hot Alchemy that had been placed inside of him lashed his stre
