The talisman that was burned by Wrynn Dawn was called "Forget Me Not," a relic personally handed to him by Grand Elder Corven Dawn on the night he turned twenty-one, when the elders had toasted his future beneath lantern light and declared him the pillar upon which House Dawn would one day stand.
It was not a talisman meant for convenience or prestige, but for survival, and its function was as absolute as its name implied.
As long as Wrynn remained within three thousand kilometers of the Grand Elder, the moment his life entered genuine peril, Corven Dawn would feel it and answer.
When the prison tower exploded in a storm of fire and pulverized stone, when the shockwave tore across Dawn District, and the taste of ash filled Wrynn's mouth, he understood with brutal clarity that he was not facing a reckless woman.
He was facing something unfamiliar, something that bent rules he did not yet comprehend.
