Chapter 17 Forgotten Powers -Ruarnon Three weeks into magic practice, Ruarnon had mixed feelings about it. Could they have broken the chariot’s axel, made it lose a wheel and forced it to stop, when Zaldeans abducted their parents so long ago? The fighting had been too strained, and there were likely too many threats for magic to have saved Arlian or Ethlin. But could magic craft have deflected the blow that killed Uncle Omah? Ruarnon shook their head. Companion Tor had advised them and Lenaris not to think this way. Not to torture themselves by considering their losses, and how knowing magic craft earlier might have saved people they loved. “Look to the future,” Tor had said. And Ruarnon had thought of how magic shields would help them, Governor Armar and Governor Syenne ward off assas

