A grain of stone shifted beneath Sonya's fingertip. Then another.
The movement was small enough to disappear beneath the blizzard, but she felt it. Something answered through the frozen road, reaching past the pain and the cold spreading from the spear in her stomach.
Sonya turned her attention inward and found the balance she had maintained since awakening. Earth and metal. Two affinities she had treated as separate, although part of one had belonged to the other long before her Chaos Flame existed.
She had moved it once. She could move it back.
Her first attempt brought a spasm through her body. Blood slipped between her lips, and the connection almost vanished. She held on, following the portion of her earth affinity she had transferred into metal.
It was not stored demonic energy. She could not simply draw it through her pathways. She had to undo the change itself, letting that part of her affinity return to what it had originally been.
