12 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS This time he conjured a horse worthy of a king and rode as fast as he could across the winter plains, back toward the mountain cavern behind the waterfall. He wanted to get a distance from Rashel that would not bring her to mind where she might be observed in a stray thought. He wanted to shift his brain and his goals so the location for this next confrontation must be somewhere that didn’t bring that precious new world onto the stage of his mind. Besides, Marit kept sending him lonely thoughts, and he needed to settle her as well. With his faster horse, the trip to the cavern lasted only an hour, but Yeolani’s irritability with this form of travel also rose with every hoofbeat. There must be a faster way for a magician, less dangerous than a tornado. That might

