Chapter 19
This time I deliberately didn't close my eyes. I just pushed myself into my altered state, never breaking eye contact with Stu standing over me.
My vision was suddenly doubled. I saw the world as I normally did, but superimposed on that were the living threads.
My scarf and Stu's scarf were both wool, something that had once been alive. That made their threads easier for me to see and manipulate than if they had been inorganic.
It was ridiculously easy to break the threads. The scarves both crumbled to little fibrous puff balls and blew away.
I stood up. Stu fell back against the wall. The look on his face was abject terror. Somehow, I doubted that was just from me magicking my bonds away. It seemed extreme for even what Otto had described before.
I stepped forward and fel
