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Was I hallucinating? You couldn’t really trust your hallucination to be upfront with you on that subject, right?
It’d been a long time since I’d seen anyone in the club who appeared to be finding something they needed rather than trying to lose everything they could.
If you could look on the bright side or the dark, why in the lands would you choose to fall down into the depths?
But there’s something very satisfying about breaking a problem down into its base components and rebuilding it from the inside out.” I’d never heard anyone put the act of invention that way before, but now that he’d said it, I couldn’t think of a better way to express it.
“Acting at that point seems wisest,” Chess said. “And while I may not always have the most level of heads, I can occasionally point it in the right direction.
I lost track of my words when I met his eyes again. Something in his face had brightened without an actual smile, but those eyes had darkened to a hungry shade that touched me like fingers being trailed over my skin. A shiver of anticipation raced through me, even though he hadn’t made any move to really touch me at all.
Almost the same. A little point rose up in the middle of the stone. I ran my thumb over it instinctively to test it and let out a yelp at the prick of pain. A drop of blood welled from my skin and slid across the ruby’s surface. In that second, a glow rose up through the gem as if from within. A warm shiver shot through my nerves, so potent I almost dropped the ring. Then the light faded, the blood vanished, and the stone looked perfectly ordinary. Well, still gorgeous, but hardly magical.
