#timothi

Cameron sent a bolt of lightning at Elenore. For a moment, Lodgepool could see her shield, as the lightning crackled around it. Then it faded from existence entirely.

Rinnie formed fire around her fists, but Lodgepool couldn’t stand by and do nothing. He put himself between Elenore and Rinnie, pulling his knife out of its scabbard at his hip.

He grabbed Elenore’s arm, yanked her off-balance, and shoved his knife into her armpit.

Everything seemed to freeze. Elenore turned and stared at him. The stare was almost otherworldly. With her opposite arm, she reached over and grabbed Lodgepool’s right wrist.

Lodgepool stored the rifle under the bed and put the pistol on the bedside table. He tossed the backpack at the foot of the bed, but didn’t make any effort to unpack it yet. Then he perused the kitchen.

So aura-binding is dangerous because you run the risk of damaging your own aura while trying to fix someone else's...

But then Rinnie does this...

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The necrosis was spreading up to his elbow, purple tendrils preceding it. Rinnie bit her lip.

“Fuck it.”

She put one palm against his face, her fingers stretching to his left temple, his forehead, and his cheekbone. The other palm she flattened against his sternum. Then she forged a connection, binding their auras. She slammed down some walls on her own aura, trying to protect herself, but also leaving enough open so she could channel.

While she wasn’t particularly intimate with Lodgepool’s aura, she knew what it was supposed to feel like. Additionally, by this point, she was damn sure she knew what Nidtrix’s influence was. Unlike with Selsing, where the influence manifested as dark slimy cancers in his aura, this influence was like a fire out of control, burning everything so completely there was nothing left behind.

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Thanks for asking!