CHAPTER 16
As the sky began to lighten to the east, behind a veil of thick low clouds, George stood in the snow and looked at the exit of the intrusive way, west of the manor. Rhodri and Edern kept him company, with Seething Magma.
It was still closed, his seal undisturbed. He thought about where the end might come out. Underground, Mag said. Maybe there were guards there, unprepared this early in the morning.
The last time he destroyed the way that was standing here he’d simply unmade it, letting the world around it override the unnatural displacement. This time he wanted to use it as a weapon, if he could. He’d hardly slept all night, in rage and anguish about Rhys. One of the things that had occupied his mind was how to make the collapsing of the ways an attack.
He couldn’t just pic
