Bonded Summoner

Book 9. Chapter 34: The Harmonious Tide

Even by this method, I am limited in what I can say to you and what I can truthfully defend. So I will not give you a method, Jake. I will only remind you of what you already told me and what you have already proven.

I listened when you described how you meant to prepare for this moment. I believed in you then, and I believe in the foundation you have built now.

The gift is heavier than the offering you expected, but do not let its immensity draw your eyes from the center. A Hearth is not made sacred by the height of its flame but by the lives gathered around it.

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Meet this as you have met every true trial since the beginning: with the Hearth and family you made together. Let what you have built decide what you become, and forge yourself anew.

Before he could chase the warning any further, the air grew heavy. Far heavier than when he had forged Nessa’s Hearthian Core.

As before, the delivery was instantaneous.

A streak of blinding divine light ripped into the physical realm from the Hearth of the Refuge, plunging directly into Jake’s chest and striking his central Hearthian Nexus.

Then came the second.

Larger. Denser. Vast enough that his soul recognized the danger before his mind could fully grasp it.Jake wasn’t sure any amount of planning could have prepared him for that difference. If he had sensed it correctly, Svaha’s Spark was Tier 2, and Agni’s was Tier 3.