With time, Mia's mind unscrambled. Feeling came back to her fingers, and the symbols glowing against the bone surfaces stopped scalding her brain. Slowly, she looked back down at the book, and pointed with a shaky hand at one of the circles at the base of the tower.

"The first circle you touched," Zel said, "is the circle of Death's Grip."

"It is? How do you know?"

"The symbol is written in various places, and my old lover Azailia has shown me the symbol of her spire." She tapped on a claw on the next symbol, clockwise. "The Grave Valley." She tapped on the circle in the opposite direction. "The...