Slowly bit by bit the tattoos inked on the bodies of the two Specters faded. The malice they once contained flowed into Roach's hand and entered his palm. Bella and I who witness the entire thing hid our surprise using our links.
'Honey, Honey, how did you know it would work? I theorized that it would be possible, but I didn't think it was true.'
'It was partly because of your words that I decided to even try Bella. Remember the Awakened I told you before? When we were making our way into the Vampire's lair, we saw them "eat" malice and create lizardkin. As Roach is the same, I knew it would work.'
'But Darling, isn't this like a really big thing? Even more so that Benevols? We could just keep one of these bastards in our squads and pump all the malice into them,' Jo chirped in excitement.
I thought for a moment, before telling them my worries, 'Right, normally you would think that, but the problem is that the Reborn grow stronger with malice, much like Reapers do with soul.'
