Illusions 10

He took a long moment to examine the æther-filled contraption hanging from the wall. Then, “Lock the door. You get started on the window while I deal with this.”

Carefully, examining each tube, every knot-like twist, Jace began to construct an illusory duplicate of the device whose destruction could call Tezzeret to Ravnica. And then, just as carefully, he began to shatter that illusion, while cloaking the real device in an image of blank wall.

He had no idea how long the image might last once he was gone—he’d rarely tried to maintain such an illusion from a distance—but every moment of delay was a moment they could run that much farther. With Paldor down and Tezzeret unreachable, the ensuing confusion might buy the fugitives extra hours, possibly even days.

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 19