Sometimes you can't be who you want to be and sometimes you can't do what you want to do.

That is the daily life of our anti-heroine. She is over powered with innate and learned magics and abilities but she does not have them to use them. she has them because she was born with them and she learns quickly. 

for her it is about acquisition not utilization. She wants to have power to understand power but she doesn't want to serve and protect. 

but it is out of her hands because she is Rachel, the Milana of Trannisa realm. her purpose is to maintain a balance dictated by the realm.

she is there when she has to be and when she is not needed she is off learning new things. 

so what happens when she is suddenly needed all the time? will her habit of avoidance become a mask of doubt and insecurity. 

so will she be a flawed being and pass the torch or will she endure in self doubt and constant insecurity. 

or is there a third option that has been there all along and completely out of her control?

As soon as their caravan crossed into Dylan's territory an immense sense of safety washed over them all. This was the effect of the protection barrier that surrounded the vast property.


Suzan dragged Ester to the second level of their communal SUV to teach her how to "see" spellwork around her. The ancient vampires could innately see natural magic and because of this they recognized when there were gaps within this flow. 


Usually the gaps within the natural flow of nature magic was the existence of other magics. Elemental magic had their sources in nature so they only disrupted the flow of natural magic slightly, almost imperceptibly. Magics like shade magic, and sorcery, which was the innate magic of humans, and alchemical processes, caused the biggest disturbances while magics like knowledge magic, soul magic, and dark magic disrupted only slightly more than elemental magics because these were magics that  were born of  elemental magics. 


Chapter 269 - the heaviness