Kagami
The knight fought it.
The Maw erupted from the stump in eight tendrils and the biomass along Kagami's spine split wide. It reached from shoulders and ribs and the base of his skull while Will-O-Wisp detonated in the left palm and lightning threaded through every tendril until the cemetery was white light and noise.
Ezra knelt in the koi stream with his hand underwater and his eyes closed.
The tendrils swung for him and the air around his body refused to carry the impact. Biomass whipped past his head and cracked the headstone behind him. His hair didn't move.
Get off me.
The knight was talking to the thing peeling it from Kagami's spine.
I'll kill the boy. I'll burn this body before I—
The pull started in Kagami's feet and climbed followed by the biomass in his legs shuddering. The Maw retracted in a convulsion. The Will-O-Wisp snuffed and the lightning died along the tendrils and then the knight came loose.
Six months it had lived between his ribs.
