A smile tugged at one side of Reigan Shen’s mouth. “You’ve worked so hard to stand before me. I’m almost proud.” “That’s not what I was working for,” Eithan said. “But I admit…it is a perk.” Lindon felt something. Eithan had reached beyond himself for that attack. His will was dense, and far-reaching. He had tapped into something bigger than himself. An image began to form at the ceiling, something more real than a working of dream and light. Lindon began to see a shaft of polished wood, projected from beyond reality. Then Eithan gestured, and the image cut off. Reigan Shen’s head jerked back,
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