“Good work, Balancer.”
I frowned at the title. “All I did was transport her here, Raile.”
“Yes, so you did,” he agreed in a tone that clearly didn’t agree with me at all.
“Perhaps you don’t consciously realize this, Garth, but it's little things like this that are restoring balance to Chahir. No task can be done in just one stroke of effort; it takes many strokes, and much sustained effort.”
He was right. I started reviewing all of the things I had done over the past two years, memories flicking through my head almost too fast to follow. Each choice had led to another; my choice to leave my home in Tobadorage and seek refuge in Hain led directly to my actions now, bringing a queen into exile. And each choice, each action on my part, had started the chain reaction that was bringing magic back into Chahir.
