It was dark power he was wielding, a power that took as much as it gave, that demanded as much as it destroyed, but as he looked at his little girl, at the daughter he’d failed, something inside of him shattered.
He hadn’t seen her shields drop, hadn’t noticed as that gap opened up and the General slipped into her mind, but as that bastard invaded her and she let out that cry of pain… He knew what he had to do. As that evil green gaze turned to something icy that held no reason, only hatred… He knew. It was going to be her or them.
He knew the power he was summoning, he knew this human vessel would shatter under the weight of it, but he did it anyway. He dug and fell and plunged straight into the belly of that darkness roiling in the deepest parts of his magic and pulled it to his finge
