“Remember me telling you that most wizards would prefer to enter your mind through subterfuge? That is, to find an opening somewhere below your consciousness and enter that way? Yes? Good. You know we are hunted. Hunted by most, if not all, of the wizards found in humanity. Hunted by most, if not all, of those who are Dragon. Almost all of them want to harm you, child. Many will decide to attack you on a united front and try to destroy you first in the Netherworld and then here in the Outer Realms. Understand?”
She had leaned forward and propped her head up on both fists tucked underneath her chin, the elbows of her arms braced on her legs. She nodded eagerly. I reached out and touched her cheek gently and smiled. So young and so innocent to be forced into such exercises which might save
