Sorry haven’t been interacting much lately, I’m exhausted & really stuck. To jumpstart I tried backing up to Rush’s studies w/ the Linduen Acolytes three yrs before BK starts. He’s on the Druid path … but he’s trying to find a way around a major barrier to moving forward.

White text on black background *Why should I wish to shove runes around with my mind in the first place?* The runes were supposed to make it easier for novices to move the chips. But he struggled, trying to visualize that light he had never experienced when a child, the heart of Firmamancy, understanding he would not visualize it now and never would; he would never shift rune chips with his mind, for Firmamancy was a thing born in the soul of a light he did not possess. A light that must brighten to grow in the power. But what about the power he shared with Drisal? Could he draw that out, channel it himself? Could he move a rune chip with it? What was it? Not light, but a feeling, deep and vast. Where would it go? If not into Drisal, then into these runes, and with the runes he would move the chips. He had only to ... He resisted an urge to glance furtively around. He was alone in his cell in the dark; he wouldn't be caught. If he could do this, would it pass for Firmamancy? Excerpt from ancillary material to Brother’s Keeper by A.C. Turek