“The flames guttered around Abigail Pent (…) in that blazing blue corona her eyes were dark and liquid and—feral. The House of the Fifth always skinned itself over with such airs of civilisation, with so many manners and niceties, but they were spirit-talkers, and speakers to the dead. And the dead were savage.”

Image ID: A drawing of Abigail Pent from the waist up. She has light skin, long brown hair and she has her mouth open in shock, and her eyes are glowing blue and fierce. From her eyes on either side shoot out two blue thin lines of light. She has her hands outstretched and around both of them is a growing amorphous light of green-blue. She is wearing a brown tunic and a golden cloak above that which is embroidered in gold thread at the edge. Her brown hair is messily flying all about her.