Pel quickly reaches for the candle to take it away and snuff it.

"Of course they know each other." She hesitates, eyes on that shard. She has never asked about it. Sina seems unique, in that she bears that shard yet is not a Rifter. Unless there are others Pel doesn't know about. She can't usually tell a Rifter from a non-Rifter on sight, after all.

"Does it hurt?"