Chapter 8 – Intrigue and Influence
Master Keleusyn sat on the altar in the Mentarch's chamber. If he had been corporeal, he wouldn't have touched the vile thing. Being unable to interact with the physical world had some advantages, though, and one of those was never having to be disgusted by things you “touched.” He still missed tactile sensation, but he wouldn't go back to being a mortal even if he could. The Luminiferous Plane offered way too much.
He watched the red sparks flying around in the node for several moments. He often wondered how the thing existed at all after everything that had happened to it. Part node, part Master Bessalle's spirit, and all damaged by that i***t Fenys and his gang of fools. It was a living conundrum.
But one part of that conundrum had been solved, at l
