“So, Adrian is in there?” Ari stared at the blaring green stone as she spoke over her shoulder at Audrey and Link who were at a counter on the far side of his room. Sitting beside him on the bed, she had not left his side since he had… died, watching his face drain of its color, of its expression. This was a different sort of stillness than that of simply sleeping, a stillness that chilled her skin with its truth. Even if Adrian was somehow trapped in that pendant’s stone, there was nothing of Adrian in this shell of a body.
“Yes, he’s in there,” Audrey reported. “It’s called a veşnic amulet. There aren’t many made and it takes a good deal of power to make one. But if you’re wearing it and something were to happen to your body, your spirit has the choice of going into the stone, h
