Chapter 72: Chapter 2 Insights and Intuition

Nathan stared up at the crowfolk mage, who looked back at him with beady eyes. Then she flicked a wrist and Nathan was surrounded by a void of darkness, cutting off all sensory input.

It was really just a complex working of light and shadow, cleverly linked to his body such that he wouldn’t be able to escape it if he moved. Which wasn’t likely right now. Nathan absorbed the spell, using the Stamina he got from it to keep healing his abused body. He was pretty sure his internal organs were all back in the right places now, but he still had a lot of shattered bones, some of which were poking through skin.

He looked back up at Gale Shullet, the birdfolk mage looking down at him and chuckling in the back of her throat as she tossed a gnarled staff from hand to hand.

“Real quick at that, you are. Try this one out.”

The world flipped. Nathan couldn’t help but scrabble weakly at the ground to avoid flying up into the sky. His hands weren’t working very well, and he would have screamed at the shifting bones if it hadn’t been for [Juggernaut's Wrath]. He felt out the illusions and the more subtle working on his inner ear and tore the spell apart, glaring up at Gale and speaking raggedly. “Not funny.”

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