13
Burdens
From the ore of the universe I have fashioned a ring,
It can see as far as the fallen sing.
—Excerpt from The Book of the Traveler, Amended Edition
Ashlyn shut the door to the bedroom after she checked on Cade, who was now fast asleep. The use of the ring had seemed to take a toll on both him and his phantoms. Jace had insisted to Cade that with Ashlyn’s help they could do the research on Eos without him.
Jace was poring over an old codex of bound notes and diagrams Ashlyn had seen out on the table. Next to him sat the ring of marbled dark gold. It wasn’t like any jewelry she had seen before, and she had seen quite a lot. The royalty and aristocracy in Toltaire were nothing if not well decorated. Jewelry was the tried and true way to display one’s prosperity, or at least t
