Lucy
I shook his hand. “Thank you for teaching me.”
He chuckled. “Don’t thank me just yet. I have a feeling you’ll have more than one callous by the end of all of this.”
He handed the pages back to the councilor. “First lesson, always activate your cloaking spell.”
I frowned. He gestured to his neck. “Every anchor has one. It will keep someone from trying to take it from you and debilitate you.”
I looked down at it. “How do I do that?”
“Hold it in your hand and say hidden.”
I frowned down at it and held it. It felt warmer and different than before.
“Hidden.”
A ripple of light went over it, but it looked no different.
“Good. Now it’s keyed to you. No one else, except for me could take it from you.”
I clutched it in my had. “Why would you need to take it from me?”
“To charge i
