Nerissa POV
I found the sealing method in Andrea's journal. The first two times I read it, my eyes moved over the words without fully landing on them. Perhaps because I was reading for information about the bloodline and the sealing method was buried inside a longer entry about the old roads that I initially categorized as historical context.
When I caught it while reading it again,I sat up straighter and read it again slowly.
‘The old roads close to the carrier's touch the way a wound closes to clean hands. The carrier places their palm against the stone at the entry point and holds the intention of closing without pushing it. The road reads the bloodline and responds. The herbs from Sable's collection amplify the signal. Three at each point burned at the threshold. The smoke carries
