He did suggest that I wear the rib brace for another two weeks as a precautionary measure.”

“Most of the soreness in my ribs is gone, and Master Draffyd feels that I’m ready. His dark brown hair was shot with gray, more than even a few months before, it seemed to me, but the circles under his eyes did not seem quite so dark, and his narrow face was not quite so haggard. He turned and nodded for me to close the door. Louvered leaded glass panes cranked full open. Master Dichartyn stood beside the narrow window with its I entered the small room with its single desk and bookcase, and but two chairs. Both moons were high in the morning sky, with Artiema full and Erion waning, although they were easy to miss in the white sunlight angling over L’Excelsis, sunlight that tended to turn the granite buildings of Imagisle a whitish gray.Īs I reached the open door to Master Dichartyn’s first-floor study, the first bell rang out from the tower of Anomen Imagisle. The faint mist that had hovered above the grass earlier had lifted, and the morning was cooler than usual, perhaps foreshadowing the end of harvest and the coming chill of fall. On Vendrei, the twentieth of Erntyn, just before the bells rang out the seventh glass of the morning, I hurried across the quadrangle of the Collegium to the administration building to meet with Master Dichartyn-imager Maitre D’Esprit, the director of all security operations for the imagers of Solidar, the second-most senior imager of the Collegium Imago, and my immediate superior. Guilt cannot be imaged, but it can destroy an imager. What is unseen cannot be separated from what one images.ĭo not trust those who will not follow their own tenets. The philosophers assume that the rules of the world do not change Honor is all too often an excuse to abuse power.īelief does not make an image, but can destroy one.

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