Chapter 4: Quest for an Understanding
Kelvin struggled to make it home but the sigil continued to burn under his skin as if it had been engraved with molten iron and each step he took felt as if he was dragging the weight of a dying huge man whose full weight is left for him to carry.
Kelvin kept going home but he thought to himself can that place be called a home because it is a deep empty shell of an old container situated under the bones of a collapsed overpass. The walls of the house is made of scraps and broken traps with the smell of rusted metals lingering in the air like a choking Sulphur.
Immediately Kelvin got home, he dropped he scavengers bag just inside the door way and dropped onto his patched old blankets.
For some hours he lay still on his blankets with his muscles paining him heavily as he experience muscle contractions with blood still flowing through his palm where he had sleet open to break the Xerion’s chain.
While he lay down sleep was not forth coming as his mind became the battlefield for hovering images and sensations, his body has vehemently refused to sleep.
The roaring voice of Xerion, the crimson light from the sigil, the way and manner in which the chamber shattered under the Xerion’s rage and power, all lingered in his head, making it a busy ground that could not allow sleep.
By the time it was morning he had given up on rest as he had so many questions in his mind, at that time all he needed was answers
Kelvin stood up and headed to where he stacked his old books like: The Guild Tomes with torn pages, materials that were written in many dialects, there he found an old book he got from his dad that he never opened until that morning, titled Fractured Rift Codices that scavengers had looted from tamers that were long dead, the book was stitched with a dragon-like hide, it has half of the Chapter on sigils of dominion.
As Kelvin flips through the book, his eyes meet a part that spoke of blood-bonds, ancient rituals and the way of binding that usually requires months of ritual preparation, getting a sanctified ground and been focused on training which he got none of it. Only his first encounter was all he had.