Chapter 35: Make Your Own Resonance Catalyst!
Goliath's inner face watched Kivas in absolute stillness, the larger mouth framing him never moving. The ambient glyphs around his seated form pulsed once, and a deeper hum vibrated through the floor beneath their feet.
"I will now ask questions," Goliath intoned. "Your answers will guide the forging of your resonance catalyst. Speak truthfully. Clarity of self defines the clarity of faith."
Kivas inhaled slowly, exhaled through her nose, and nodded once. "I'm ready."
Goliath's first question arrived without pause. "Have you ever consumed flesh?"
Kivas blinked. The question seemed simple at first, but she immediately recalled the time she ate a Voidling corpse Samael had harvested—an old trick to link herself to its spirit, creating a weak Nightmare to hunt for attribute growth.
Technically, it could also mean flesh in its simplest sense.
"Yes," she answered without shame.
"Do you find delight in lying?"
Kivas frowned slightly. "No, even if it is necessary."
"Would you sacrifice yourself for the greater good?"
"No," Kivas said flatly. "My death benefits no one unless I choose to frame it that way. But I won't let the 'greater good' define my value."