Chapter 464: What Do You Seek?
Tala, Rane, and Terry followed Lisa into Irondale.
As he stepped inside, the impenetrable illusion of a generic human male seemed to roll off of him, like Tala or Rane would shed a coat when coming in out of the weather.
-You don’t wear coats.-
Did it make sense or not?
-...fine…-
Tala hadn’t opened the door to the main gate of the town—through which they enacted trade and tourism when Tala opened the town to the outside world in various cities. Instead, she had chosen a more scenic locale. Thus, they came out of the face of a small cliff roughly a mile from the edge of town.
Lisa looked around, eyes widening immediately. “How do you have such perfect control over power that isn’t yours?”
Tala grinned, the door swinging shut behind them. She didn’t dismiss the portal out quite yet; that would be tantamount to trapping the fox, and he wouldn’t appreciate it. Though, as she considered it, she realized that if anyone could break out of Kit, a powerful arcane who was also a fourth-dimensional construction expert should be able to manage it. Regardless, she needed to answer his question. “That’s the beauty of it. It is mine. It isn’t flavored with my gate, thanks to the artifact you traded to me, but it is within my soulbound storage, and doesn’t have a will of its own. It’s as much mine as my own skin.”
He turned to regard her. “One moment. Are you telling me that the magic in here is untainted because of that?”