Oh. He agreed with Alanic, that really was annoying—he wanted to know who the guy was working for just as much as the priest did. He thought about offering his services as a mind reader to the priest but quickly shelved that idea. Aside from the very likely possibility he would make Alanic too suspicious to help him with his soul magic problems, there was the fact that he wasn’t sure how much help he would be anyway. His mind-reading skills were still very unreliable at this point. He’d feel pretty stupid if he outed himself as a mind mage and then failed to achieve anything of note—better to try that in some later restart, after he gave his telepathic abilities some polish.
“No matter. I will figure something out. I’m afraid I’ll have to postpone our meeting for a day or two because of
