I stared at the chains wrapped around Damon's fragment, feeling their connection to something vast and hungry. The Harvester's trap. Meant to catch me the moment I tried to interfere.
Fine. Let it catch me.
I wasn't running anymore.
I reached deeper into my power than I'd ever gone before, past the warmth in my chest, past the training exercises Gia had drilled into me. Down to something fundamental. Something written into my blood.
The Kaelix ability. The thing that made entities like Xarath and the Harvester fear my bloodline.
Soul Unbinder.
I could feel it now, that primal aspect of what I was. Not just the ability to cut threads or navigate realms. The power to sever any bond, break any connection, unbind anything that had been bound.
The chains pulsed with red light, sensing my
