“It’s more like magnetism. The trellium spike responds to other sources of Investiture in the way one magnet responds to another one.” “It wants to stay apart from them,” Steris said. “More like it has the same charge,” Wax said. “I doubt that it ‘wants’ anything.” Though, as this was part of a god, who knew? Particularly since, so far as he was aware, other Invested items with a similar charge didn’t repel one another.