Lady Tenia crouched to the ground to retrieve the elf's sword. She also grasped onto a small ring with an obsidian-black gemstone. Desmond immediately recognized it as something similar to the one that magically appeared and disappeared on Lucius's hand when he used his Mark.
Tenia examined it carefully with a sad gaze for several minutes. It was a look of remembrance. How was she…
"Desmond Adler." Tenia closed her fist around the ring. "I know this boy has been looking for this object. Unfortunately for him, it is not to be just yet."
She glanced over to Lucius, who had fallen unconscious at some point. The glow from earlier had vanished along with the tendrils of shadow and smoke that had tried to fend it off.
