As it turned out, Taiven and her two friends were more than a little specialized in combat magic and didn’t have the faintest idea how to go about tracking down either the watch or the spiders once their rudimentary divination attempts failed. Eventually they settled on just wandering around, hoping they’d stumble on the spiders’ lair and occasionally repeating the divinations with no change in effect. After about two hours of that, Zorian was ready to call it quits. He was just about to suggest they give up and come back the next day, when he suddenly felt very, very sleepy.
Being a mage required a great deal of mental discipline—shaping mana correctly required focus and the ability to visualize the desired result with crystal clarity. As such, all mages were, to an extent, resistant to
