Margaret L. Carter by Wild Sorceress

Author:Wild Sorceress
Language: eng
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Published: 2012-05-31T11:55:50+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Aetria entered her tent and found Loreana seated in a chair next to a sleeping Coleni. Loreana motioned

for Aetria to take the empty chair next to her. After she had, Loreana handed her a goblet of wine. Aetria

waved it away.

“No, take it and drink. You have suffered blood loss and I, your Healer, am telling you to drink.”

After taking the proffered goblet, Aetria took a sip of wine and tried to relax in her chair. “Could you

help her?”

Loreana bent forward resting her elbows on top of her legs, lowering her head into her hands, and

looking at Coleni. “I gave her temporary relief from the pain she was inflicting on herself. She would not

talk to me directly, only kept saying she wanted to die to stop the misery.”

That shocked Aetria. “Why would she want that? She had obviously learned to live with the loss of her

friend months ago.”

“I don’t know, but I have put her into a trance to try to find out what the source of her pain is. Wanting

to die may be a way of punishing herself.”

“I don’t understand.”

Loreana got up and crossed to Coleni, adjusting the blankets that didn’t need adjusting. She looked

back and forth between the two women. “Did she tell you that Lornes—that is the name of the Novice

you killed—was a friend? I think he was more than that.”

“You think he was her lifemate? Why didn’t she say so?”

Loreana returned to her seat, turning to face Aetria. “Could not have been her lifemate. Hermanian

sorceresses are not allowed to marry and continue in practice.”

in the woman and her children if she uses spells.”

“The Hermanians are a very conservative Order and have many very strong beliefs. Their beliefs are

based on experience gained over centuries, just as our Order has. Our rules, and theirs, are drawn from

the shared history of all sorcerers.”

“But we do not believe that rubbish—”

Loreana stopped Aetria with a warding hand. “It is not rubbish. Even our Order does not allow a

mother to absorb or expend Power in spell use once it is ascertained she is with child. We women laugh

amongst ourselves and say you have to be crazy to want to be a mother. A pregnant woman is a woman

in transition. We know there are many changes occurring in her body, driven by the formation of the

baby, which are manifested not only in physical change, but mental, as well. We know there are mood

swings and cravings experienced by mothers-to-be. It affects the way the mother-to-be thinks, and

remember the saying, `I think, therefore I spell.’”

Aetria felt embarrassed, more by her outburst than being lectured to. “Yes, I understand that rule, but

carrying it past the birth of the child and forever is not sensible.”

“Not taking it in the context of the whole view of sorcerer life, I would agree. But add other facts into the

argument. Remember that in the early days of our Order, marriage was only allowed with another

sorcerer. We laughed at the non-sorcerer’s belief our sorceresses would absorb the life force of normal

man, but did nothing to discourage it because it provided protection for our sorceresses.

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