The memory ended, leaving Cassie alarmed and disturbed.
'It... can't be.'
She had glimpsed too much in Torment's tainted mind.
She had glimpsed things that she should have never seen.
She had delved into the alien mind of her Defiled past self, and now…
Cassie felt something changing inside of her.
Something seemed to have died, and something seemed to have been born. Something seemed to have moved in her heart, and something seemed to stop in her soul.
Her very being was writhing in pain of a transformation as everything that comprised her, that was her, struggled against the vile rebirth. A force more harrowing than anything she could imagine was trying to change her, while a power she never knew she possessed was trying to preserve her.
She knew what was happening to her all too well.
It was Corruption.
'No, no, no…'
Knowledge was the origin of all power. It was also the heaviest thing in the world.
And, sometimes, it was the most dangerous thing in the world, too.
