“How do you know this?”
“Before I served your mother, I was an Elder Magi.”
“Why would you give that up? That’s an even greater honor than serving in the kingdom, even in a great house like my mother’s.”
Joran nodded. “I went to the Head Magus with my concern about the great sorcerers of Ilynglass. Yes, that’s where they come from, though none have successfully found its location or returned to it, that we know of. They don’t realize we know even that much about them, but a name matters not, only what a name means. I told the Head Magus that they were few, but they were powerful, and they were patient. I told him they were waiting for their moment, and by the time we realized it, it would be too late.”
Brandyn’s jaw went slack. “Wow.”
“And for that, he said I had overstayed my time at
