"As long as you're satisfied I couldn't have tampered with it before now," Kash replied as he took the leather band from Alex.

Assuming the answer to be yes, he murmured the incantation for Light, and within a few heartbeats the leather band glowed with a bright light strong enough to illuminate a pitch-dark room. He handed it back to the other man.

"It's a simple spell called a cantrip." It had been his first. As a boy instinctively afraid of the dark. "If I don't dismiss it, it will last for 8 hours."