What It Does
The vein, found and set — the venom is the delivery, and the vein is the road the wound goes where the hunter points it. It is the venom school's answer to the water school's current walk: the venom does not carry, the venom finds the vein, and the vein is the one who carries it to the heart.
The Cost
Circle 3 · Venom · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The vein is found a beat too late, and the venom keeps the tension — the vein is the one who carries, and the one who carries is the vein that was already the one who is standing.
In Stories
The journeyman's venom spell; the one the camp casts when the vein 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.