Memory/Mind Destroying

“I just … seethed. For days on end, going over and over it all. And then, the next time we were practicing, I just … snapped. I got inside his mind, and I unleashed all that rage at once.

“I don’t let myself remember his face, Kallist, even to this day. I’ve used my own magic to keep me from seeing it. Because I know that if I do, I won’t see the face of the man who taught me most of what I know. I’ll see the face of the man I walked away from: bulging eyes, gaping lips, skin slowly turning purple. The face of a mind so broken he’d forgotten who he was, what he was—even how to breathe.”

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 14