Kael raised his hand. "This."
He lifted the gauntlet just enough for them to see it properly. The metal caught what little light existed between the broken skyline, and the rune socketed in the palm gave off that faint, wrong warmth that didn't match the morning air.
The Boss looked at it and said, "I would have asked you to hand it over for… inspection. But I can see what you mean."
"What's that, boss?" one of the Sun Clan members asked.
They leaned in like moths toward a lamp. Curiosity first. Then hunger.
"Never seen anything like it, looks like a glove, but it has a rune in it. I'm not touching that with a six-foot pole." The Boss said.
His tone stayed light, but he shifted his own hands away subtly, like even proximity was a risk he didn't want.
"Where did you find that?" One of the members asked. Greed obvious in his eyes.
