It isn't even darkness, per se. [Raine gives this a little thought.] Not as an element, at any rate. There's just something... off. Not like living mana should feel.

[Wrong. It sets her on edge sometimes when she's paying attention to it, like being in the depths of the Temple of Shadow with Abyssion laying claim to the Devil's Arms. Mostly she's used to what Bakura feels like, but sometimes...]

[The fact that there is worse bound into the Ring makes her eyes sharp, and she frowns at him.]

And it came with you? What is it?