the Siphon, he called it—tapped into a person’s store of Essence. Far more useful when applied to mages, whose stores were by far larger than regular people’s, but still effective on those like myself. The lethargy, even occasional fainting that we all experienced at various times was from Serrin draining our very life force to supplement his own.
So Nethgalla has been the one responsible for Asha’s dizzy spells?!
