Chapter 113

This was also a fact he had kept to himself. They hadn’t asked him about her true nature, which was yet another oversight on the Council’s part. Bad questions meant that he could dodge the truth, a feat which reminded him constantly of Lily. What loopholes of her own had she exploited?

He shuffled through a few more papers, then set them down. “My best guess is that this group of individuals tried to connect two planes. It is possible, but the process requires a tremendous amount of magical power. Without a proper stabilizing field, they would have lost control of the spell, which caused the explosion.”

“And the implosion?” The mage was hanging on his every word. Even though his superiors had good reason to doubt his recollection of events, he was still seen as an authority on magic.

“The space between planes is a mysterious one. It isn’t technically a space, and you have to punch through it. When reality meets a plane without the rules of physics to dictate it, th