The Echidna's Scale (Alchemy's Apprentice) - Plot & Excerpts
He was thinking about his use of the powers contained within his golden hand. The powers of the hand had saved him when they had been evident upon his arrival at Clovis, during the battle with the wolves. And they had saved him at the end of his Clovis interlude, as they had cast forth the curse that had protected him while leaving the monastery. But the two uses had been different. The first time his powers saved him, he had been completely unaware of them, had not expected them, and had not even considered them. The second time he had not anticipated them, but once he began his curse, he had known that the hand would make it happen, and he had shaped the curse to address the perfidy of Zosma, knowing what the power of a sorcerer’s curse could do. And he had even initiated the glowing light within his hand on the one evening occasion at the library, when he had consciously and deliberately unleashed the sorcery contained in the limb.
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