“They call her the Sunbringer. I do not know how she came to possess such abilities—the first I’d known of it was after witnessing her fight in the war between the Third and Fifth. She wiped out my clan with it. If I had been slower to move…” She shuddered. “Etrienne feared her. A vampire who could manifest the very thing capable of its own destruction—he called it a curse, said she would be better off dead. The Fourth Court’s decline was not a coincidence.”
