Vice guild leader of the White Knight Guild.
The identification arrived in Lukas's awareness with the particular, confirming quality of someone who has been assembling a model across two weeks of travel and has just received the specific, additional piece that validates what the model had been suggesting all along. He had known — in the particular, instinctive way of someone whose enhanced senses and accumulated observation had been quietly building toward a conclusion — that neither of his traveling companions carried ordinary identities. Tommy's Death God bloodline had been the first confirmation. Ambrose had always been the second question.
I knew it.
The thought had the specific, unsurprised quality of someone who has been waiting for the confirmation rather than being genuinely startled by it.
Ambrose had turned.
