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"The story is unclear," Lillian conceded "There is also ic The Lady of the Lake"

"Uh," said Jared, "I’d rather be Merlin"

Lillian sh fire and water to reach their full power Especially water I think the Lady was the real sorcerer"

"You see hoorks," said Rob "We all know the name of the source We can never be sure who the sorcerer was The sorcerer does not matter There has not been a sorcerer and a source in Sorry-in-the-Vale since 1480 for a reason I don’t want that kind of life forfor her and knew he said it more for her benefit than Rob’s

From the look on Rob’s face, he knew that too "Are you? Or are you just saying what she wants to hear? Sources influence your eic You haven’t known about sorcery long, I know, but you have to understand how serious this is She could cut you off froic any time she liked You have to understand that she has absolute power over you"

Kami sat stricken

"You have to understand," said Jared, "that that’s what I want"

Rosalind’s ragged breathing caught on another sob "I didn’t mean for this to happen," she told Rob "I would never do anything to upset you"

That piteous appeal made Kami look not at Rosalind or at Rob, but at Lillian, to see how she took this evidence that her twin sister was still in love with her husband Lillian had not turned a hair She was looking at Jared, her blue eyes narroith interest "My sister did this to you?" she inquired "I understood that taking a source was voluntary"

"She did this to us," said Jared "She put a spell on Kah her eyes before either of us was born"

"I didn’t knoould happen," Rosalind said sharply, lifting her tear-wet face from her hands "That woman, Claire, she wasn’t a Glass There was no way she could have been a source I didn’t know she was having a baby, or that you could find a source that way, across distances, without saying the words I just wanted to e froe for a source to your son," Rob said He was the only one in the room who looked concerned for Jared

So this hy the Glass family had a house built where the Lynburns could keep their eye on it, why the family was meant to stay where the Lynburns could keep their eye on the," said Rosalind, sing another sob "I didn’t know anything Not until he was born, and he was such a terrible baby The city was like a cage There was nowhere to go, but then there was another Lynburn withto someone else He used to turn his face away from me It was as impossible to love him as it was to love David"

"Rosalind," Lillian snapped "He was a child You linked his mind with another child’s And you are Lynburns You had soo As soon as you realized what you had done, you should have come to ly at Rob Her fingers hite on the arms of the sofa "Not really It was Jared He chose to irl"

Lillian’s voice crackled, i up the smooth flow of her commands "I wish you would take some responsibility for once!"

"And what about you?" Rosalind demanded "What about what you’ve done? What about what you did to me?" She rose from the sofa, one hand wrapped around the walnut wood bolster that held up the canopy

Lillian tilted her chin and regarded her coolly without getting up "I do not regret anything I have ever done That is a policy of mine"

"You have no heart," Rosalind said, low "You never did"

"The mistress of Lynburn does not need a heart," Lillian told her

Rosalind cast a look at Rob, as if expecting so When Rob stayed silent, she ran froet out of her way She had not looked once at Jared

Lillian had scarcely looked away Kami did not much like the way she looked at hiht she owned every blade of grass in the Vale

"None of this is Kami’s fault," said Ash His head stayed bowed

"Of course not," Lillian said absently She leaned forward, eyes narrowed and her focus solely on Jared "We could test the limits of your ability"

Rob shifted away froht he would run out the door after Rosalind "We know the limits of his ability!" he said "Rosalind chained his powers to someone else before he was born I would never have believed she would do such a thing I will not allow it to continue"

The rooold spots in her vision as if they were ht "It doesn’t have to continue?" she asked "There’s a way to stop it?"

"A way to sever the connection? Yes," said Rob Lynburn "I beg you to do it"

"How--" Kaan

At the same tiers brush Jared’s shoulder: it was tensed, hard and unyielding as stone, but stone would not have flinched away from her "I think we should hear what he has to say"

"No!" Jared repeated He wrenched himself up to wheel on Kami