The Alpha's Rejected Luna and Her Secret Heir
It comes off an old woman lying in a bowl of black ice, gold and low and no more than a coal in a grate, enough to see a hand by and nothing much else, and it is the first light anybody in this mountain has seen since a four-year-old's palm went out.
Nesta says, from the bottom step, in a voice I will keep, "Oh. That's hers."
"It is," says Eira. "That is the whole of what I am, and it turns out to be about a candle. I have not had any of it to myself in three hundred years, and I find I do not know what to do with it."
Cassian tells me afterward that he felt the dust go past him. He says it came up off the floor where the Pale had been sitting and went up the shaft altogether, like a door op