A battle raged outside the desert temple but you didn’t have time to think about that. You needed to stop him. Zain was on a quest for an artifact that would make him invincible so that he could continue his bloody conquest of the continent.

You reached the room right when he was about to touch what looked like golden bracelets on a pedestal. You dove and touched it at the same time. And then everything went black after a burst of magic.

You awoke with a groan to find a gold bracelet glowing with a tether to… another bracelet on Zain’s wrist. He glared at you. “What did you do?” He looked at the tether between you both and then lunged for you saying “I’ll kill you.”