Ah. There's the other shoe. This new strength expires eventually, and extracts a toll. Well, such is magic: nothing without price. He has never shirked from paying.
:If nothing else, it's the way everyone else is going, and that means whatever happens next is going to happen over there. But you're correct - I will go cautiously, hanging back from the crowd.:
The pace he takes is brisk, but nowhere near a run or even a jog. Far faster, however, than he could have managed on his own, and with the option to move faster still if needed. He lets himself savor it briefly, guiltily. But perhaps, if this is something she can teach, if this is something he can learn -
Nothing without price. Remember that. He thinks of the smell of burned flesh and his brother's shocked face, quite deliberately, and puts the idea aside for now.
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:If nothing else, it's the way everyone else is going, and that means whatever happens next is going to happen over there. But you're correct - I will go cautiously, hanging back from the crowd.:
The pace he takes is brisk, but nowhere near a run or even a jog. Far faster, however, than he could have managed on his own, and with the option to move faster still if needed. He lets himself savor it briefly, guiltily. But perhaps, if this is something she can teach, if this is something he can learn -
Nothing without price. Remember that. He thinks of the smell of burned flesh and his brother's shocked face, quite deliberately, and puts the idea aside for now.