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The Tower Master could not speak for a moment. He stared at Ketal, who stood with one hand planted on the white serpent’s skull as if pinning a misbehaving hound.
“How are you already here?” he finally managed to say, the words slipping out half as a groan.
The battle between him and the White Serpent had not yet lasted an hour. As far as he knew, Ketal had been on the far side of the continent. There had not even been enough time for news to travel.
“I felt the waves of the battle,” Ketal answered as if it were the simplest thing in the world. “They did not feel ordinary, so I came immediately.”
The Tower Master repeated the core of that explanation under his breath.
“You felt the waves of the battle from the opposite side of the continent?” he said.
“I was meditating because I had nothing else to do,” Ketal replied.
He said it lightly, but the truth in his words was simple. The more he focused his mind, the sharper his senses became. While he sat in stillness, a strange disturbance had rippled through the world far away. Something enormous had collided with the fabric of reality.
From Ketal’s perspective, there was nothing left on the Mortal Realm that should have been able to create that much force. The moment he realized that, he understood that something was wrong and moved at once. By the time the Tower Master neared the limit of his endurance, Ketal’s arrival had intersected perfectly with fate.
Ketal looked the lich’s broken body over and let out a soft sound.
“Judging by your state, it was rather dangerous,” he said.
The Tower Master answered with a low, dry laugh. “It was.”
The Serpent thrashed under...
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