[A/N: This bonus chapter is thanks to PettyEnigma! Please thank him in the comments section for me.]
Simon could feel a foreign presence inside him.
It was too small to account for the attention it drew. He followed the strange pulse into his Infernal Heart and found a faint outline within his burning heart.
Smaller than a grain of rice.
It trembled whenever his heart contracted, gathering definition without quite becoming solid.
Simon examined it more closely.
A word surfaced.
A seed.
His expression tightened.
'A seed? What the fuck is a seed doing inside my heart?'
"As I expected. You began forming one naturally during the tribulation."
Simon looked toward Lilith through the lightning surrounding him.
A crimson branch crossed his shoulder and opened a narrow wound. Unholy Regeneration closed it while he turned.
