Chapter 267 - Bound by Flame

The integration was agony beyond anything Selena had previously endured, and she had endured dissolution and reformation and corruption and crowning and every variety of violation that the march toward unwanted authority could inflict. But this was different. This was the throne not just claiming her but consuming her, not just binding her but absorbing her, transforming her from separate being who sat upon a seat into component of the seat itself, organ of a larger organism, cell in a body that existed as pure hierarchy made manifest.