It wasn't just any Calamity.
I pressed my palm flat to the grass and let my senses sink into the trace. The shape of it came clearer: a heavy, rotten malice, miasma packed so dense it felt like wet ash, and under it all a particular resonance I'd carried in my nightmares for months after the first time I'd felt it.
The Heavenly Demon.
"Arthur?" Seraphina's voice was sharp. "What is it?"
I stood slowly, my mind running through possibilities that didn't fit. "This is the Heavenly Demon's power."
"That's impossible," Seraphina said at once. "Gideon carried the Body aspect, and you killed Gideon weeks ago."
"I know." I stared at the ground. "When Liam Kagu killed the Heavenly Demon, it split into three aspects—Body, Mind, and Soul. The Body ended up in Gideon. Jack carries the Mind, and half of the Soul. The other half of the Soul went with the Body."
Selene had come closer, her face tight. "Then is this Jack?"
