CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Less than half an hour later, I found myself hiking down a barely visible trail in the Accord State Park. I rarely went hiking, mostly because I didn’t care much for it. I never saw the appeal. What was so fun about walking, sometimes for hours, through harsh wilderness, often in bad weather? Sure, I didn’t mind going for a nature walk sometimes, but hiking was one of the few amage activities I didn’t get.
And it really was an amage activity. I didn’t know any mages who liked hiking. It didn’t help that the state parks were all owned and operated by amages or amage governments. Hiking required that you put on hiking clothes and boots, which meant leaving the robes and silk shoes that many mages usually wear behind. Perhaps there were some mages out there who liked hikin
