The moment it said be erased, the bond tightened with the certainty of something that had already begun.
The words did not echo, and they did not need to, because their meaning settled instantly into the space between us with an absolute finality that left no room for interpretation.
The presence within the bond was no longer observing or waiting, and the shift in its intent altered everything. What had once felt like tension or instability now carried the precision of a system enforcing its own law.
The pulse around us changed, not chaotic and not unstable, but measured, deliberate, and controlled in a way that made it far more dangerous.
Kael remained silent for a moment, but I sensed the shift within him, the tightening of his control not outwardly in dominance, but inwardly in calc
