[ WP ] A couple share their last kiss .

`` It's time,'' I said to the broken, bleeding thing in the circle. After the months of torture, brutality and abuse, I'd finally broken myself of the dark passivity I had once wielded like a club, to beat over the head of any remotely interesting person. I tapped into the mage-bond, thrall to master, that resided in my mind channels. This was the final step in my ascension to Panarch status; the necessary sacrifice was this broken soul that I had bonded to me. 
 
 I am one of the Ascended, the Master Race hidden behind the depths of Humanity. The pitiful fleshbags, rotting with their filth and their shows. The intricate designs of the circle drawn painstakingly in my own blood blended Vedic, Celtic and Slavic patterns to form the channels through which the power will run once the ritual is complete. 
 
 I gently held his head back, and it yielded like the sad ending of a boxing match. The kiss was metallic, tangy and filled with life. He nodded, the last vestiges of his will given to me utterly. 
 
 I let go of his head, and pulled my ritual blade across his throat. The pain was immediate, and nearly drove me into the darkness. But the ritual was not finished. I moved my hands in the pattern initially scribed to me in the ashes of the newly-dead; *Fire-spirit-metal-void-delta-omega-sigma*. 
 
 Kneeling within the circle, I watched the last dregs of his life faded away. I felt the pressure building within the circle. `` I give this bonded soul to thee. **Grant me thy boons of wisdom, strength and will! **'' I screamed, as I felt him die within the circle. 
 
 The release was pure ecstasy; the broken bond unleashing all of his life in one violent burst. Now, to complete the ritual, the final handsigns; *Alpha-omega-delta-sigma-omega-alpha-epsilon-alpha-omega. * That completed, the power started channeling within, directed by the call of like-to-like. 
 
 *Now* I collapsed, the dark pleasureovercoming the pain of loss. My bond was severed by death, rejoined by murder, and sealed with a kiss on the cold floor. 
 
 I was *unmovable*. 
 
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 Not quite what was supposed to happen, but that's what came out.
