When most Catchers think of strength, they picture impact.

Claws. Flame. Storm.

Cordialith is none of those things.

And yet—

It may be one of the strongest Glyphs I have ever encountered.

I first met Cordialith not in battle, but in fracture.

It was hovering low in the courtyard of Cross Sigils Outpost, its rose-glass body dim and unstable. One antenna bent. A visible crack splitting through its core.

There were no external wounds.

No scorch marks.

No strike damage.

It had broken trying to hold everyone else together.

Pulse-type Glyphs are rare. Empathy-class stabilizers are rarer.

Cordialith does not generate chaos.

It regulates it.

Its heart-shaped body is not symbolic.

It is functional.

That core chamber within its shell absorbs emotional surges in  ...