What It Does
A dart, drawn and let go where the hand says — the venom is the delivery, and the dart is the one who carries the wound with an address, and the address is the whole argument. It is the venom school's answer to the fire school's firebrand: the dart does not burn, the dart finds.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Venom · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The dart leaves the hand shaped, and the shape is not the one the hand sent — the dart is the one who finds, and the one it finds is the address that was already behind the line.
In Stories
The journeyman's venom spell; the one the camp casts when the distance is the argument and the address is the one who has to drink.
The door's scale anchor is Venomfury — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.