Innate Magic (The Marrowbone Spells, #1)

by Shannon Fay

“Walk on water, huh?” I said. “You know, a lot of people abuse that parable, talk like it’s about puffing yourself up too much. In the story Jesus walks out onto the water and calls for the storm raging around ’em to stop, and the storm does. Then he calls for his disciples to join him on the water, and only Peter is brave enough to give it a go. Peter’s feeling good at first, feet firm on the water, but when he lets go of the boat he gets scared and sinks. Luckily his best mate Jesus grabs him out before he can drown. The point of the story isn’t that Jesus could walk on water. It’s that we all could if we had just a little more faith. That’s what cloth mages do. It’s not that we can walk on water; it’s that we make it so that others can.”

Thomas got a dreamy expression on his face. “I envy you. If I had a couple of weeks in bed, all the reading I could do .