"I know how to do it," Vanessa said, her voice cutting through the quiet of the workshop.
Jonah looked up from the rack of empty vials, his thoughts still tangled in the fear of being copied. "Do what?"
"Find the nature of your power," she said, her eyes bright and focused. It was the same look she'd had when she was solving the puzzle of the surveillance runes in the Dragon's Tooth. "To track the Bureau's work, we need a unique signature in your power that we can scan for. A magical fingerprint."
He nodded slowly. "Okay. That makes sense."
"But it can't be a fingerprint of you now," she continued, already pacing. "Your power has evolved, you've absorbed other essences. It's too complicated. The Bureau is working with a raw sample. To find what they're looking for, we need to look at the same thing they are."
She stopped and turned to him, her expression dead serious. "We need the original data from your Awakening."
