Betrayal

“So he forgot you in his moment of triumph, didn’t he?”

The old woman looked back at Garth as if he had spoken too much, bringing into words the humiliation of her heart.

“I helped him, you know, I helped him down through so many long years.” She pointed to the bookcases and the piles of dusty scrolls. “It was I who learned the paths and the spells, and the incantations to bridge the planes.”

“So why don’t you go yourself?”

“The mana. It is the mana which gives one the power to control magic in this plane. It is the mana as well which has the power to open the doorway into other realms when one knows the hidden path. I knew the path, but it was he who controlled the mana.

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Arena, Chapter 10