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“Merna’s Cradle?” I repeated.
Asher crossed one leg over the other and smiled at me. “Named after a fanciful tale about a woman named Merna who, during a time of great war, laid her infant son in a nest of rocks in order to hide it from a group of soldiers. They found the mother and killed her, but her babe was left unharmed and discovered by a group of miners who adopted the child. When the lad was of age to help them, he started work where his cradle had been and found a large vein of geasa that made them all very wealthy.”
“Geasa?” I repeated.
“A black, pliable metal that can be imbued with spells, like the tracks of this train,” he explained as he gestured to the floor. “The geasa was imbued with a levitation spell and the interior of the train engine itself was imbued with
