I looked at Jack's face, noticing a glint (tears?) in his eyes.
"What happened?" I asked.
As he told me everything, I wondered why I hadn't heard of this phase before.
While Caerland is full of dark arall, there are few dark mages in Crow Hill. Powerful mages have no reason to live there, in the back of the woods. Crow Hill may be the biggest mining town in the North West of Caerland, but it still is a dark, cold, and small place. Technologically advanced, with the mines and all, but not to the levels of the richer south.
All those who wanted to go through Initiation left for the big cities, so I never saw them in Crow Hill. And, once I was in Ashford, I'd consciously avoided dark mages.
How would I know, when I was so isolated from dark mages' culture?
But it was a nasty surprise, f
