Ertai - Abeyance

“If it’s necessary, if some mechanical trick is the only way to do something,” I assured her, “I’ll find a way.” Her arrogance irritated me. The only lesson she’d understand was an object one. Putting my hands behind my back, I cast a web that Barrin called “Abeyance.”

“In truth,” I said to Hanna, “I doubt that you yourself can make this ball of scrap metal do anything impressive.”

“Scrap metal? You call a Chimeric Sphere scrap metal?” She set her jaw, drew the mounted Mind Stone from its bag, and tried to shift the shape of the sphere. With my spell in place, the metal warped and twisted itself, momentarily grew head and wings, but collapsed back into its unimpressive shape.

“Well?” said Gerrard.

Hanna tried again, and again her energies only partly charged the sphere, then collapsed in upon themselves. She looked at Gerrard, then eyed me with suspicion. “I can’t.”

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Rath and Storm - Ertai's Tale