Imbued items are dangerous. Wielding one is less like using a tool, and more like riding a very powerful, half-trained animal—you can influence the item, but it can influence you right back. Most mages will only use imbued items when they absolutely have to. Wielding two at once is much harder than using one—the items fight with both their wielder and each other, pulling in different directions. I’d been using three. It was only the dreamstone and Arachne’s training that let me do it. With my experience of Elsewhere, I could stabilise the links between myself and the items, riding the waves of
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