She didn't know how to start, which was, itself, a strange admission for someone who'd spent ten years using the gift instinctively, the way you used your own hands without needing to articulate the mechanics of grasping.
"I've never had to explain this from the beginning," she told Tavri, the two of them sitting in the same small room where Sera had once read Aldric's intent, where Praxis Vael's account had unraveled, where so much of the Ledger's real work had happened over the years. "Maren taught me the bloodline attunement, the suppression-reading. But the Read itself — the truth-finding, the intent-reading — nobody taught me that. It just arrived, in an alley, fully formed, the night the bond activated."
"So we're improvising," Tavri said.
"We're improvising," Sera confirmed. "Whi
