Mind Control 1

Jace found the part of the axe-wielder’s mind that governed the man’s thoughts and opinions of his fellow Orzhov compatriots. Jace created an urge, laid the urge over the Orzhov knight’s mind, and pushed the thought in as far as it would go, deep down into the subconscious. He could sense the knight’s views changing, like a dark stain spreading through silk cloth.

But he could tell immediately that attacking the mind of just one of the Orzhov wouldn’t be enough. He would have to disarm or distract them all.

The spell to warp the Orzhov knight’s mind was taking effect. Jace expanded the reach of his mind, letting the spell spread to the minds of the others in the area—to a sweaty priest with a dark sun pattern on his robe, to a spindly, elderly guildmage whose face was covered with a hood, and to a shifty-eyed Orzhov enforcer with a cluster of knives sheathed at her belt. All of them had been devoted to the Orzhov for years, but Jace put a twist in their minds to make them question their allegiance.

Jace felt a twinge of pain as he connected to the Orzhov’s minds, just as he had with the family on Zendikar. But he didn’t need to become the bridge, to let them all see into each other’s thoughts—he only needed to plant a thought in them.

Teysa Karlov nodded sharply to her entourage. “Get her wrists. You, with the axe, get ready to take her hand off.”

“Enough orders from you!” shouted the knight. He lifted his axe high over his head, his body squared directly in front of Teysa Karlov.

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Dragon's Maze: The Secretist Part 3, Chapter 8