Chapter 375. Some Will Do More Than Forget

Thalia’s mouth twitched upwards as though she was grateful for the directness.

“Well to put it simply Daemon craft works like this. You cast a circle, you call a name and you promise something that you think you can afford. The power comes, but it doesn’t leave when you want it to. It marks you and it takes what it wants. It twists the body if you force it through flesh and it binds to the soul if you invite it in. Eromaug’s line of magick does both.”

The Bracken elder lifted a hand.

“Elemental craft isn’t a bargain. It’s a bloodright. It doesn’t demand oaths to a foreign thing. You’re born with it or you aren’t. You train it or you don’t. There’s a cost, of course there’s a cost because everything in life comes with a price attached, but with us it’s the cost of work, not a price that you pay with your soul.”

The Tideglass matriarch nodded in agreement.

“Our lines swear to Hecate’s laws, not to a daemon. Her laws bind how we use the gift, not our worth