"That's something I would like as well, but everything has its time and place," Thalira replied with a brief smile that faded as composure returned to her features. "What I want to know is this: are you the reason Lady Liora Virell managed to subdue the Collossith?"
The question had troubled her ever since she heard her father speak.
Silverlight Zephan's warning kept echoing in her mind: the Velari Kingdom had been pressed for years under the threat of a Rank 4 Spark, practitioners lost one after another, and then, a single day after Adyr appeared, the impossible happened, and the Spark was subdued as if by a miracle.
She could still remember her father's lesson, ringing in her ears as if spoken a moment ago:
Never underestimate a rival, my daughter, even when what stands before your eyes seems like nothing more than an illusion.
