The Riven Shield: The Sun Sword #5 - Plot & Excerpts
For a moment, they were. Her vision had shifted again; the fires banking. She could not longer see. She saw Lord Telakar no more clearly than any mortal present could, but she had seen him. For a moment, for a handful of moments, she had seen his name as a fire, a nimbus of light, a thing that was woven through him, and of him, in a way that it could be of no other. Beauty, in that, beauty and danger, and a terrible, visceral desire. To speak the name, to speak it well, was to offer challenge; to win that challenge was to own it. There were very, very few who could win that challenge; his name was a subtle binding, a thing of power far easier to destroy than subvert. Her hand was warm; the ring, as she lifted it slightly, luminescent. Luminescent or no, Telakar’s gaze was not drawn to it; it was beneath his notice. Whatever she saw when it burned, he could not see. Comfort, there, but it was cold. When she had first touched the ring, it had almost been beneath her, but the woman from whom it had fallen had shown the only moment of fear that Kiriel had yet seen, and she wore it to invoke that fear.
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