Chapter Update: To Err Divine
I just updated To Err Divine with the latest chapter: The Ship
Wren meets her family and they're even worse than she imagined. The gang comes to her rescue, Umberlee gets involved, and Wren makes an important decision.
Snip: During the rescue, Wren finds herself helpless and needs an assist from Gale to keep fighting.
Wren turned to Gale, who'd been jumped by a crewman and was blasting him away with a thunderwave. She realized, with nauseating certainty, what she had to do. With her blood pounding in her ears, she misty stepped to Gale’s side and, with trembling fingers, clasped the empty cuffs onto his wrists. As the metal met his skin, she refused to let herself think about what she was doing and what it meant. The click as the clasps closed had the finality of a key turning in a lock, though which side of the door she stood on, she couldn't say.
Gale looked down at his wrists, turning them slowly against the weight of the metal.He looked at her in shock. The battle was still happening around them. It didn’t seem to matter. "Wren." His eyes did not leave her face. “What did you just do?”
"You have to," she said urgently. "I can’t cast until these chains are off. Until then, anyone on this ship could take control of me. Please," she urged, "you must..." She closed her eyes as if that would make saying it easier. "You must wield my magic."
A wave of thunder battered both of them, knocking them back. Gale caught Wren’s arm before she tumbled over.
The thunder was still rolling when he straightened. Around them, the fight was deteriorating. Somewhere to her left, Jaheira was swearing in both Common and Chondathan. Aylin's silvery light flared somewhere towards the bow.
"I will give it back," he promised. "The moment we can get those cuffs off, I will release you. You have my word." He didn't wait for her answer. He found the new channel between them and opened it.
Wren felt her magic crash into him like a wave breaking over a seawall. He floundered for a moment as he reckoned with a force that was as unlike the Weave as a forest is unlike a garden. His eyes darted back and forth, as if reading something in the air. He squinted, tilted his head, and suddenly he had control of it. Wren’s entire perception of the world changed.
Arivae had wielded her magic like he was piloting a ship, steering it this way and that. Gale took her and stitched her into the fabric of the Weave itself. She could feel her own magic within her, and she could feel the entire structure of the arcane branching out around her. She was part of it now, a part of all magic extending out forever. She felt herself expanding outward, twining in and around that massive network of power.
Gale’s arm came around her and pulled her close until her back was flush against him. With a gasp, she came back to herself, though she could still feel the Weave all around her. His breath was ragged and hot against her ear as he incanted. He sculpted both of their magics into a storm that began to cast bolts down over the entire ship, striking only at their enemies.
For one sickening moment, the tadpole connection was completely open between them and Wren could feel both the intense pleasure Gale took in harnessing her magic, and the mortifying shame it brought with it. Gale slammed his mind closed and Wren strengthened the cold that filled her, trying not to feel her own pleasure and shame in being used this way.
As one, her hand and his stretched forward, simultaneously forming the movements that directed their storm. Nastacia was near now, and Gale snapped a shield over both of them, handing over control of the storm to Wren while he maintained the shield.
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