ALPHA LINCOLN'S POV

So the next night he came back to finish everything up. He performed something that was called A Fusion Ritual. This ritual had to do with the merging of the gemstones and ethereal silver into a seamless whole. It was going to be harmonized and create a resonance that would respond to the Locket's wielder.

To purify and solidify his work, he submerged in a bath. Not an ordinary one. The bath was blessed when he was doing his alignment ritual, and it would help enhance the Locket's connection to string energies.

Malachar treated this Locket like a baby, polishing the locket with lunar-infused oils. It was...