Communication 3

“It’s a start.” Tezzeret pointed to the first guard, though he’d turned back toward Jace. “Can you include him and me both?”

“What?”

“Can you talk to both of us like this?” Jace frowned, felt his fists clenching. I’m … not sure. Tezzeret glanced at the guard, who nodded. “I heard him, boss.”

“Excellent!”

The young mage was tiring swiftly, in mind if not in muscle. The sensation was like trying to juggle two balls in two different directions.

And then his entire body slumped when Tezzeret pointed to another guard. “All three of us, now.”

It took Jace half a dozen tries before the second guard also heard his mental “voice.”

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Agents of Artifice, Chapter 10