"Hold the bloody veilfire still and keep looking at the rune and you'll see what it's all about. I won't need to explain it." Him being a mage with vallaslin does not mean he won't fuck things up for her. Ugh, she hates it when people have a theatrical sense about shit anyone can do. Or. Shit any mage can do.

The rune communicates a building sense of epiphany, excitement, and desperation. A part of a puzzle, or complex code.