Hollis renewed his refusal while the foreign core tore loose from his armor, joined through the mortal consent beneath it. Its authority reached the stolen key's royal conduit toward Didi, who met the transfer with frost beside her planted rapier.
Her frozen boundary kept that borrowed inheritance outside her exhausted, wounded natural pathways.
"Oh, hell no," Hajin snarled, wrenching the Chain's leading link off its execution arc and toward the exposed connection.
Dominion's own thirteen Shards cracked her arrested instruction without reaching living circulation while Hollis sagged inside the Chain, still answering. His renewed agreement fed the departing authority toward Didi's current, turning his own acceptance into a claim she never offered.
He kept the willing signature visible as the royal route flared toward her wounded hand.
"Withdraw now, you stubborn tin bastard!"
"It's still riding your permission, so end that part before it tries wearing her body like a coat."
