"Nia, come here for a minute. I want to test something. I think I might have found the origin of the Bloodline Curse." Wolfe demanded.
As soon as she came next to him, Wolfe tried the same process, but instead of getting a black sludge, he got dust pushed out through the pores in the skin.
"That's it. I know why the witches are getting weaker and why they don't awaken their powers until after their eighteenth birthday. This corruption is liquid when you are young, but it dries up with age. So, with our newest witch here, it was still liquid and actively blocking her abilities. But for Nia, it was dried to a powder, and the pressure from the backed-up energy allowed it to force its way through.
