Tempered Ascension

Alaric took one look at his daughter and immediately hauled over a massive sphere of blue liquid, holding it out toward her. "What if you get inside this instead?"

Her skin burned a deep, alarming red, as if scorched, and the fear coursing through him struck instantly and sharply.

He had almost reached for ice before thinking better of it, and the blue liquid sphere had been his next instinct.

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