Let her suffer a bit for him agreeing to whatever lighting that she felt should be offered to him for simply being there. If it was a perpetual flame, then she would be stuck staring at a flame he lit for the rest of her life.
He wished he had killed her, but a bit of petty vengeance was never quite below him.
Borax recognized the symbology on the basins, but not for any of his own connections. He knew them from the knights that he had worked himself through memorizing, perhaps a few from symbols he had seen in the database. None of them called to him, so he ended up selecting a random sensation; he moved to a basin that featured a symbol he recognized as Mercurian.
"This one."
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