The Mage's Heart
I had always thought of mages as quiet, studious types who locked themselves into towers and read incessantly between midnight walks through graveyards.
“You don’t look like a mage,” I said, before thinking it through, and blushed immediately.
“And what do mages look like?” he sent me a look over his shoulder.
“I don’t know. Skinny and pale? You look more like a knight,” I decided.
“I’ll take that as a compliment,” he returned to his book. Over his shoulder, I could see the writing, but I could not read it. It was uncomfortable to look at it too long. The writing looked as if I should know what it said, and yet, my eyes could not make it out, and that contradiction made my eyes lose focus. “
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