Yes

The ceremony was deceptively simple and you're able to get it set up.

A part of you was worried, in this pact diagram of salt lines the sacrifice and the pact maker circle took up the same spot the pack maker Circle incompassing the sacrifice Circle.

The last candle lit and you took your place.

" I change for those I love." It was a simple incantation probably one of the shortest you've ever heard. "I give only myself and expect to receive only the same."

Something tore inside your body like there was somebody's hand gripped around your soul and your spine.

For one brilliant second there was a flash and you saw a face weeping, "Thank you child for bringing them hope. "

Then the pain was back and you blacked out, only one thought percolated up through the noise of the pain and the rushing boots you could hear in the distance ' where did the salt lines go.' Before your face Hit the Dirt and you know more.

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You woke up sometime later in your mother's old hospital run by her assistant after she died spending too much of her own life force trying to heal a patient, something she had promised your father she wouldn't do with how weak her powers had become.

Groggy with a slowly clearing mind you are happy to notice that there were no cuffs on you.

However you did notice the two new tattoos on both your wrists.

"gguugh!" Your scream would probably alert the nurses that you were awake but you didn't care much.

A pounding headache reverberated through you as you understood on an instinctual soul-bound level what those tattoos meant.

Your left hand would we used to pull people back from the brink it was the hand you would heal with.

The right hand is the one you would go to war with.

The tears in your eyes are only partially from the pain of the knowledge of how to use it, it may be only the gifts of the initial pact but it had worked you had succeeded you found your answer.

"Son!"

Turns out the nurses weren't the only ones alerted by your scream it was your father, he rushed in and gave you a hug seeing you up and maybe a little dazed and maybe even making a sound that was less than great but you were alive and he was happy.

You went to hide your arms in case they had questions about the tattoos but you didn't need to, because as soon as you thought to cover, them they faded.

" hey Dad sorry about the scare, what happened last I remember was falling over?"

" What happened that that damn fool friend of yours decided to play a prank and the entire constabulary rushed out to your little glade! The only reason his own father didn't ring his neck for his prank was that they found you apparently having fallen out of one of your trees."

" what prank was he playing I appreciate the accidental save but I wouldn't really call it a prank if he had the entire constabulary mobilized!? "

" Did you get said you were in possession of contraband literature of a banished God and plan to follow the ritual. When they got out there all they saw was you facing the dirt. Kid had to know that his prank wasn't going to go anywhere there were no Regents no Circle and no book. Hell they even searched our house after he was insistent, now for his trouble he's been volunteered by his father to clean the jails in any other busy work the constabulary need for the next 2 days. "