Alex looked at the red glow beneath her fingers.
He had no intention of taking that power. The organ had absorbed attacks meant to destroy it, then drawn strength from his rune the moment the rune touched a feeding line. Trying to empty it under Lolth's gaze would only give her another reason to tear through his boundary.
"You take it as it is," he said.
"Then you have offered me what I already came to take."
The pale strand above his head struck downward.
Alex turned his right hand away from his left wrist and raised a second row of runes.
The impact drove him to one knee, breaking the stone beneath him. His first barrier stayed under the slab, but the boundary facing the light woman cracked from top to bottom.
He could not move the organ away without dragging the last attachment through it.
Alex pushed more power into the broken runes.
