23
Choices
Simon stood at the window of one of his favourite premises looking out over the forest beyond the town walls. There were advantages to being almost immortal as long as you took care not to allow someone to stick a knife in your heart or cut your head off. One of them was acquiring wealth and comfortable places to live. Of course, it would be pleasant to have the kind of power to be able to spin whatever type of home he wanted out of the veil, but that was not a power level he possessed. Yet.
Simon scowled. Over the years his power had increased, but not enough to do what Alex Rathadon had been able to do almost from childhood. Even if he didn’t realise, it should not have been possible. There were rules to wielding the power of the veil—or so he’d thought. As it turned out, i
