Kael
The next page began with a warning about waste.
For a moment, I thought I had reached the part where the writer objected.
Then I read the rest.
Waste meant losing too much potential during the transfer.
I sat back against the chair.
Nihil made a low sound in my mind.
"Keep going."
"I understood that part."
"There's more."
There was.
The journal described several requirements. Blood relation. An active core in the person being used. A receiving line capable of carrying the forced change. A prepared connection held long enough to complete it.
Not simply a strong person giving power to a weak one.
Not a blood sample used to improve a medicine.
The process needed a living core because it was taking something which had to be destroyed in the taking.
I read the surviving explanation of the receiving side. Several technical steps were absent where leaves had been removed. I marked those gaps rather than trying to fill them.
I did not need a working procedure.
