The violet light cleared as fast as it had arrived. My lungs burned, but the air was still. The estate was a skeleton of jagged stone and melted glass."Vaxien! Are you alive?" Nyxra’s voice cracked through the settling dust."I’m here," I said, wiping blood from my mouth. "Get up. We don't have long.""The Enforcers," she gasped, stumbling toward me. "Where did they go?""The blast pushed them back," I said. "It won't hold them forever. Help me find Zeryth.""Why?" She asked, her eyes wide. "He’s finished, Vaxien. Look at this place.""He had a ring," I said, kicking through a pile of charred rubble. "A Solari heirloom. I saw a flicker inside it during the fight.""A storage device?" Nyxra knelt beside a slumped figure. "Here. He’s over here."Zeryth was facedown in the soot. His golden armor was cracked and blackened. I reached down and grabbed his left hand. The ring was there. It was a heavy, crimson band that pulsed with a rhythmic light."Give it to me," I muttered, twisting it