Ren looked at the chamber runes a moment longer and seemed to understand something.
"I'm going to try," he said.
"Ren." Liora's voice had the exact temperature it had when concern had outrun patience.
"If Selthia wanted us to use the sacrifice," Ren said, eyes still on the runes, "she wouldn't have shown me this..." He indicated the reorganized lines above the door. "But she also has to tell the truth to force me to try the riskier approach. What she wants is indeed the rematch... For that she needs me to understand certain things correctly and that means the information is accurate, because if it weren't she wouldn't get what she wants from it. But she deliberately didn't mention one thing I just understood."
He paused to say something to Liora quietly, close enough that it didn't carry, then continued at full volume.
