✦Riven✦
The ring was too small. Kade’s fingers were thinner than mine, so when I forced his ring onto my hand, it bit into my skin almost immediately. I felt the old symbols wake against my finger. Cold spread through my hand, then up my arm, until the oath marks beneath my skin answered. Kade watched me with blood at the corner of his mouth.
“You have no idea what you are doing,” he said.
“I know enough,”
“No, Crowe,” he replied. “You know pieces. That is why you are dangerous,” I ignored him and kept the blade close enough to make him stay still. The ring pulled at me. It wanted focus. Obedience. A clean report. I gave it none of those things. At first, there was only pressure. Then the connection opened properly, and I felt the Council on the other side. Not all of them, just a few,
