[Serph peers curiously at the little speck of blue embedded in Jayce's wrist. It's such a tiny thing, but the way it causes distortions all over Jayce's flesh makes it look infectious. He'd seen that very seem strange webbing all over Jayce's insides, weaving over his ribcage in a way that made him want to see if it was stringy to touch.

He remembers that message well; he had first seen it from Blake. In conjunction with Jayce's skull for a mark... he could see it. While Jayce's death, deterioration, and demise had been accelerated-]

Your rebirth was made possible by a third force. Your partner.

[A force that was neither that of this world nor the object in Jayce's wrist, but a person with a grim determination to not accept death as the end.]

Let's not find out if you would have been reborn without him.