Then the light hugged him.
Not from outside the barrier but through it, inward, into Ren’s body, rays moving against the direction of everything that had been attacking him.
More potent than anything Orion had managed to extract from the white crystal across the entire time he had possessed it, even using seven corrupted crystals as the base of the extraction.
Not because there was more energy available now.
Because the person using it had a relationship with what was inside that crystal that Orion had never had and that no level of technical mastery would have replicated.
The essence responded differently to different hands.
It had always responded differently to different hands. Orion had possessed it the way a person possesses a door key they found on the ground and never understood belonged to someone specific.
A trait his black crystal never had...
Ren felt both energies turning in the vortex he had been accumulating.
Balancing better now. Completing each other in the way that two things complete each other when they were always meant to be in the same space, the darkness defining the boundaries of the light, the light giving the darkness a shape it could hold without expanding beyond what it was.
He could accumulate and return it now.
Because of Luna.
Luna who had promised that not one breath more of the remaining essence would be spent.
Luna who was now behind him with the white crystal raised between both hands, tears on her face.
Endless tears and the look in her eyes she had when she had made a decision and nothing in the world was going to move her from it, not exhaustion, not the cost, not the warm of her mother’s presence that was leaving with every second the crystal kept giving.
Ren didn’t waste it.
The darkness and the light turned around each other, defining each other, in the same spiral that had been at the center of everything since the beginning, since a strange bond formed between a boy and a first beast that nobody could fully explain, since the first time something moved through him that was more than the sum of its parts.
What they formed together wasn’t light and wasn’t darkness but something that drew from both without being reducible to either, a third thing that could only exist at the point where the two met.
The control of the energy arrived with it. Complete, not partial. Complete in the way that something is complete when it finally finds what it was missing.
Ren returned the beam.
Affecting not only at Orion as a directed strike. But also at the network of purple crystals floating around his body, the source of what had been arriving, the amplifiers through which the corruption had been extending itself beyond what Orion could consciously manage, the infrastructure of everything that had made this afternoon possible for him.
The energy of the impact filled the crystals.
The barrier Orion had generated with them fractured the moment the beam made contact, not absorbed, not dispersed, but reversed. Each crystal returning the energy it had stored directly back into the net system that had charged it.
The corruption that had been using the crystals as amplifiers discovered suddenly that the amplifiers had become conductors running in the opposite direction, the current it had been riding turned back on its source with the full force it had built.
Orion had exactly the time to understand what was happening.
The energy from every crystal reached him simultaneously, each one discharging its accumulated contents directly into the person who had been directing them.
The crystallization that followed wasn’t the slow process Selphira had experienced or the gradual deterioration that had come for Victor.


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