And it took him aback. It made him stop and think about precisely what he was doing. Even he, a creature of sin as he no doubt was, had never thought of himself as having gone to the Darkness. He had never quite committed such an irredeemable act of cruelty or madness or willful ambition so as to take that step. Unlike Dion he could never claim to know the wiles of evil, nor to own to the piercing sight of one who wore the mantle of the Light. For all that Abnasio had seemed a self-important thug, he was also a man who wielded that golden power. He was, in that great cosmic war, a force for
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