The compound inside the settlement smelled of glorious old power.
It was was built from the bones of Galdr Source Beasts as it carried an oppressive quality and added the weight of bones that had come from things powerful enough to have accumulated considerable Source pressure before dying, the structural material of the walls still emanating faint traces of what had been inside the beasts when they were alive.
He stood in line alongside dozens of Superbius Gilded Ones and felt the sacred weight of the assembled power pressing outward from each of them.
His Custos stood at his right, fully healed, the warmth of her Primordial Bond restored to its full expression after the trauma of the crossing and the early battles in THE Strand.
At the compound's center, a group of Gilded Ones radiated.
