Liliana - Rots away book

Onyx stopped on the final page and read over the spell. It, like all the others, had been a failure. Life from lifelessness. With her fingertip, she traced the outline of the esis leaf, caressing its edges like the cheek of a long-lost love. A black rot spread outward from where she touched it, consuming all the pages in the book, leaving nothing but the chains that had bound them.

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THE CHAINS THAT BIND