Editing Ivas, the Unwilling (section)

==The Bones==
The guards had meant to isolate him, placing Ivas in the deepest cell beneath the city, leaving him there with no light and no companions.  But he was not alone.

When he slept, his mistress spoke to him.  She whispered of things to come and showed him glimpses of her grand designs.  Behind her, the stars pulsed quietly, their lights undimmed by the earth and stone that sought to hide him from their gaze.  Each night, just before Ivas woke, she showed him a pattern, and bade him remember it when he woke.

When he was awake, the bones spoke to him.  They too had been locked here in years passed, and though life no longer dwelt in them, they too longed for freedom.  The bones promised him aid if Ivas would take them with him.  The bones reminded him of the pattern he had seen, explained to him that they could be shaped, molded to meet that pattern, if it would mean escape.

In darkness that even elven eyes could not pierce, Ivas worked, scraping bone against bone with his hands to match the pattern in his head: a field of stars strung together with threads, a watching eye centered among them.  When it was finished, he felt the spark in his chest flair and the stars of bone in his hand responded.  He smiled softly in the darkness.  He knew that the guards were not ready to see him dead yet.  Soon they would return, and when they did, he would be free.  (Symbol of Divinity +1)


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[[Crowns of the Dawn]]