He’d been pure once. But after thirty-seven edits for desperate souls, the power had begun to curdle him. Why just fix Rynn when he could improve her?
He could simply delete the PartialShift flags. So easy. But as his fingers hovered over the runes, a darker impulse stirred. The Loom didn’t just read a champion’s story. It could edit it.
A new line appeared in the Loom’s log, in blood-red text: corruption of champions 2 save editor
Loyalty: 5 → 99 Memory_Of_Meeting_Kaelen → [EDIT: "She came willingly. She adores him."] Quest_Objective → "Serve Kaelen forever."
“Please,” she begged, sliding a pouch of rusty coins across the table. “Change me back.” He’d been pure once
Corruption: 14 → 0 . There. A blank slate. He grinned. Then, a whisper from the Loom’s corrupted core: Why stop? Make her yours.
His latest client was a young champion named Rynn. She’d arrived at his door weeping, her fur matted, one hand a claw, the other still human. A failed ritual in the Deepwoods had left her half-shifting, stuck between forms, in constant pain. He could simply delete the PartialShift flags
His first change was merciful: Pain_Chronic → [REMOVED] . Then PartialShift_LeftArm → [REMOVED] . Rynn sighed in relief, her claw receding into soft skin.