“And the Hole is the biggest mana well there is,” Zorian noted. “What’s the explanation for such secrecy surrounding them? You’d think they’d be using it pretty intensively.”
“They can’t,” Ibery said. “Or at least that’s how the story goes. They have some kind of severe limitations on their use. Exactly how countries choose who gets to use the Black Rooms is where the conspiracy theory part comes in. The more conventional theories suggest they’re simply top level facilities for training black ops super agents. The wilder ones are… well, wild.”
Zorian thought for a moment. “It’s a neat theory,” he said. Far closer to reality than anything else he’d heard, though he’d never say that aloud, even as a joke. If she could take such a farfetched rumor seriously, there was a good chance she mi
