Thomas said. “Are you sure?”“You felt it,” I said. “That mental whammy. It was exactly like that night in the Raith Deeps.”Thomas frowned but nodded. “Yeah, it was, wasn’t it?”Mac walked silently past us to the ruined door. He bent down and picked something up out of the general wreckage there. It was the Accorded Neutral Territory sign. It was scorched on one corner, but he hung it back up on the wall. Then he leaned his hands against it and bowed his head.I knew how he felt. Violent encounters tend to be scary and exhausting, even if they last for only seconds. My nerves were still jangling, my legs were trembling a little, and I wanted very badly to just plop down onto the floor and breathe for a while. I didn’t. Wizards are stoic about this kind of thing. And my brother would make fun of me.Thomas exhaled slowly through his nose, his eyes narrowed. “I don’t know much about them,” he said.“That’s not surprising,” I said. “There’s not a lot of information on Outsiders.
