Chapter 11 Shock Spreads; An Omega is Marked

The pain did not cease.

It rippled like wildfire beneath my skin, a molten thread diving into my very soul. My knees buckled, and the floor of the Moon Temple raged up in the blur. I hit the cold stone floor with a breathless thud that barely registered with me-all I felt was the heat coursing through my shoulder, alive, pulsing, branding me from