12-04-2014, 09:38 PM
“You do no have cause to trust me, but if you do intend me to earn your trust I do have the time. Question do be if you be willing to spend the time required? Time here be different. Perhaps you do exercise a little faith, eh?”
Centuries of dealing with skittish initiates caused the shield to snap forward before Jaxen could do more than protest. The lad had good instincts that would help him survive, but Tarin’s job was made no easier for it.
”Try to reach for the source now you be shielded.”
Knowing how a caged man feels, Tarin watched the whelp carefully. He could not come to harm but there had been a wilder or two who had tried in their panic to put paid to his account. His was a lonely existence, but the price was worth fathering the next generation of channelers. Perhaps they would return the Light into the World. Perhaps they would…
Centuries of dealing with skittish initiates caused the shield to snap forward before Jaxen could do more than protest. The lad had good instincts that would help him survive, but Tarin’s job was made no easier for it.
”Try to reach for the source now you be shielded.”
Knowing how a caged man feels, Tarin watched the whelp carefully. He could not come to harm but there had been a wilder or two who had tried in their panic to put paid to his account. His was a lonely existence, but the price was worth fathering the next generation of channelers. Perhaps they would return the Light into the World. Perhaps they would…