Mind Connection

Jace t.hrust forth with his mind, taking hold of the minds of all ten runners. He saw the impact Lazav had had on their minds. But even without the Dimir’s influence, each mind was a tangle of rage, blame, and frustration, each one shaped by its own set of experiences, informed by its own unique perspective on the world.

That was their strength and their weakness. Each of them viewed the world through their own lens, their own skewed perspective. He had to make them see each other. He had to make them see each other as he saw them—from the inside of their minds.

Jace used his own mind as a conduit, connecting all ten minds to each other. He used himself as a bridge just as he had with the family on Zendikar, demolishing the barriers between them, letting them see directly into one another’s souls. Varolz could sense the hotheaded frustration of Exava, who could directly perceive the militant zeal of Tajic, who could share the belligerent rebellion of Ruric Thar, who could see the passion for order and law in the heart of Lavinia. Each guild champion was flooded with the simultaneous thoughts and emotions of every other. They formed a ring of minds, a ring of hopes and beliefs and ways of life, a ring of lives.

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Dragon's Maze: The Secretist Part 3, Chapter 11