POV: Lyra
She watches a mortal defy gods. And memorizes every second.
The device's glow changes when Kai advances.
I've seen the device in its earlier forms — the court version, the small contained disruption, the specific quality of a thing that was built for a bounded application. What's running in his hand as he advances into the divine storm is the full-scale version, the months of development and the Direwolf blood rune connection and the divine resonance built from proximity to Eros, and the quality of the glow is the specific quality of something running at the full expression of what it was built to do.
The gods recoil.
