Kael looked at the final Rune in his arsenal, the rune that he hasn't used yet. He turned it over in his palm, feeling its shape and weight like that alone could tell him how it wanted to be used. The others had practically announced themselves the moment he understood their rules, Fire was obvious, Anchor was a leash, Darkness was a hole in reality, Excise was a scalpel. Momentum… Momentum just sat there like a smug little promise.
It didn't help that he couldn't picture a clean moment to test it without risking embarrassment or a broken neck. The Tower loved punishing "curiosity" the same way it punished "greed", fast and painfully.
It wouldn't matter much to use this rune with darkness or with the fire rune, he thought. If anything, it sounded like the kind of rune that made everything more dangerous by making it faster. Faster was only good when you had control, and Kael had already learned he didn't own control in this place; he rented it.
