"Raith smiled. "There. You already feel yourself weakening. I've taken thousands like you, lovely child. Taken them and broken them. There was nothing ...

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.
~ Jim Butcher ~












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