"Let me correct you. First of all, I am a man. Second, this isn't something I learned through Ritual Studies, it was an inheritance passed on to me by Miss Feliana."
Shard understood this power in his own way, but Miss Galina shook her head:
"The conditions to learn and to use are one and the same; if you do not qualify on your own, the inheritance would be impossible. However—"
She gazed at Shard with a hint of confusion and dissatisfaction in her tone:
"Did Miss Feliana think that there were no witches left in the Sixth Era? It's clearly the power of a witch, yet she passed it on to a man..."
The last part of her remark was very quiet.
Shard didn't know how to reply. He turned to look at his Ring of Fate, hesitated for a moment, and then said:
"The thing is, the problem doesn't lie with Feliana's Witch Light."
Shard said, setting the cat down on the couch before standing up:
"Please follow me to the corridor."
"Do you mean to..."
