Proximity to rifts and veilfire will cause the shard to react- and when they are...active, for lack of a better term, they cause pain. None of the others I have spoken to have reported a loss of sensation or strength in their hand- does that hold true for you as well?

[ So new a thing, so fresh a shard- she wishes to examine it in greater detail and were this girl from anywhere else- it might be possible.

But she is elven and Orlesian and that holds it's own weight. ]