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ripped away. Knowing that he couldn’t draw in magic himself, Thad lifted Thuraman into the air and pulled in magic through it. The diamond glowed as it pulled in the magic and he could feel Thuraman as if he were holding a beating heart. Once he had gathered enough magical energy, he created an illusion of Maria. He gave a faint smile then let the illusion disappear. “I wish you would have been this useful when I was younger.”
    That would have made things too easy. Just as if you had been as strong as your son, things would have been much different though that does not mean in a good way. You never liked the idea that others were controlling you, yet more often than not, you let them do just that. At first I hated that dual nature of yours, but now I think I see something I have never seen before. I don’t think it is the so called gods that control us, but the world itself. I think there is much more going on here than we might see.
    “You might be right,” Thad admitted. “Things have not always worked out perfectly, but they have worked out, and in some cases even when there was no reason for them to. If there is something steering us then there is little reason to think about it. We will do what we must. To its design, or our own, that is all that we can do.”

CHAPTER III

    It took Humanius six days to get his children to help with the effort to bring the glass in from the Deadlands. Getting in contact with them was the easy part; getting them to work with mages without trying to kill them was the hard part. Even with their god telling them, it was hard for many of them to set aside their swords and many of the mages, who had been trapped in the void, didn’t make it easier as they held grudges for the action of the Brotherhood as most of them were from the time of the Fae war.
    Thad spent much of the time while he waited talking to the mages from the long past. At least the ones of them that still lived. Within the first three days, a good number of the mages tried to use magic causing them to either go insane or burn out. They knew the risks, but the call of the magic after being cut off for so long was just too much for them.
    What he learned after talking to the remaining mages was that there was much more to the Fae Wars than he had believed. He also learned that mages back then were not as strong as the ones that are around now. The same was to be said of the other magical races. The longer the bloodlines stretched the more magic seeped into them. It was almost like a gradual progression, and made Thad think of the things Humanius had said about the weakening of the vale and how mages had first been born in their world. If Thad was right, then even without Belaroan’s help, a new god would have been born eventually though most likely not before the vail had completely fallen and the door to the other world had been completely open. That also meant something else to Thad other than the obvious dangers. If they shut off both doors, then the flow of magic would greatly decrease, and mages might disappear completely given enough time.
    Are you just now figuring this out?
    “Don’t act like you already figured it out,” Thad said almost laughing to himself. “You always do that. Whenever I figure something out, you act as if you had already know about it. I wonder how many times in the past you have done that and I just went along with it.”
    You just now figured that out. I thought it would be good for you to think I was always a little ahead of you. Kept you from getting too full of yourself. No reason to worry about it now, I think you have enough to care about. What are you going to do about this current one that has caught your attention?
    “Nothing much I can do at the moment,” Thad admitted. “I will just have to think, and hope to find a solution. The wall has to be built, but I would hate to see mages fade from the world.  If that must happen then so be it. The world lasted over a thousand