Author's Note: Okay, this one takes place during Vesper's Rising. So if you haven't read it yet... this is your warning. :)
She fingered it with a delicate, almost tentative touch. To the untrained eye, it seemed just a normal band: a class ring, a wedding ring….
No, it was much more than that.
A dark legacy. A powerful possession that seemed to leave pure disaster and chaos in its wake. People would literally kill to get their thieving hands on it.
And now, with a determined gleam in her jade green eyes, she slipped it, in a single brave motion, onto her thin, trembling finger. She nodded resolutely at her brother. Now, it fell to her.
The ring of Gideon Cahill…
Author's Note: So? What'd ya think? Review, por favor, while I post the next (and last, for tonight) drabble! :D
~Lily