This time, his ready eyes found the source..
It was right there- at the vortex where both their organs were joined. A whistle of surprise cooed from his mouth. He recognized that light.
"What the hell?"
Arching his neck, his head propped forward- rustling his hair against the stack of pillows.
"Did I just bind myself to some kind of covenant or something?!"
Investigating with just his eyes, he screened the sight properly- and a sigh of deep relief flushed out of his nostrils. It wasn't what he thought. At least, not completely anyways.
Below her stomach line- just at her pubis, the familiar glowing blue light had emerged. The system had spoken about it only recently. It was the mark- or was it?
In flashing blue lights, like an ancient seal, the pattern bloomed on her pubis.
First, in the shape of a single spiraling circle.
