I assume Shiar's "dirty little secret" was the Phoenix Blade....
Which when that guy used against Rachel... she managed to take some of its power away from the blade... The wielder stated the blade felt weaker... and she said because the power belonged to her so she took some of it....
so it that's your secret? Rachel owns.
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."
Well the way i understood it, all of the power is in the blade itself... after the original person wielded the blade.. .only his descendents could wield it... so... the blade itself is whats powerful (like excalibur) and only a true descendent could wield it.
__________________ Quotes from Hia8:
"I claimed that the science is sometimes faulty."
"You don't understand. This is fiction. That means none of this stuff really happened."
"There is no writer to purposely ignore a character's natural ability just because it suits the story."
"in some cases because the writer knows that Character A will dominate Character B easily and refuses to allow this to happen for the sake of the story."