Chapter ONE - Weebly

“You did that,” Caner said.
“Yes, I did. I cast a revealing spell. What you see
there is the mark of the conjurer who killed her. If this
man had killed her with an attack, the silver glow would
be concentrated wherever his spell struck her. Instead,
it covers her entire body, because instead of hitting her,
like a conjured weapon, the spell drew the life out of
her. It used her to bend the will of another. Killing her
wasn’t the aim of the spell; her death was the means to
another end.”
“This is sorcerous nonsense!” Caner said. “For all I
know, you’re concocting all of this to confound me!”
Ethan shook his head. “You’re wise enough to
know I’m not. I can take that spell off of her. It would
take another casting, but I could do it. Then you would
be free to examine her for yourself and see that there
isn’t a single physical mark on her. But I don’t think I
have to. You’ve already seen her. You know that a
conjuring killed her. And now you know what kind of a
spell it was.”
The rector regarded him grimly, his lips pressed thin.
“The only conjurer that I know of in this city is you,