"Would it be possible for me to see your mask for a moment?"
Jake stopped up and looked suspiciously at Eron. "Why?"
"I believe you know why," Eron said, giving Jake a knowing smile. "The spark is faint, but most certainly there. It burns in a way and glows in fashions I have never seen before. I merely wish to observe and inspect it. Nothing more, nothing less."
"What once was inside this mask has died—notification, experience, even a title and everything confirming that," Jake rebutted. He did know there was something about the King slumbering, but he didn’t truly believe it was the King of the Forest.
Perhaps it would be a vision of the King or some fragment of it, but the Unique Lifeform itself? Villy had told him that one doesn’t simply circumvent true death. It wasn’t like Jacob
