Dorrik did not answer for a while, and I thought I might have presented an impossible challenge to him, but he reached back to the bench beside the forge and picked up the blade I had handed back to him, and he set it down in front of me.
"Look at it," he said. "Properly. With whatever senses you have."
I glanced at Dorrik and picked up the blade. I had felt the Law in it the first time I held it, although I had not known what the Law was because I had not looked at it closely… that had been a mistake, and it was time to fix it.
Most of my senses were sealed, but I was a Proto-Sovereign, and with Path Perception from the Law of Stillness, I was able to glimpse beyond the surface of things, and it did not take long for me to determine that whatever Law was inside here was not one that I recognized.
