Draven's POV
I know what it is before she finishes taking it out of her pocket.
The glow is specific. Not all supernatural objects glow and the ones that do glow in ways that are distinct enough to identify if you have spent any time around them. This one pulses with a silver light that moves in a slow rhythm, patient and deep, like something breathing rather than burning. I have seen that glow once before, in a photograph in my mother's research files, beside three handwritten pages of notes that I read so many times at sixteen that I still know the specific order of the sentences.
Selene spent four years looking for a complete Blackthorne bloodline amplifier. I know this because the research file was detailed and dated and covered every dead end alongside every small piece of progress
