This is pretty much it.
Chapter 21
The group rides off towards the border and the chaos is catching steam. They see people running amuck and murdering and they refuse to stop until the horses are too worn to continue. The group talks the entire time and Ikrivain explains what happened or what he thinks happened. He confesses that he didn’t kill him and lies about why–claiming he was unable to reach him.
Esme stares off into the distance and talks about how she can feel them and how she is changed now. He is changed too. The low level magic that infected him when spells were cast is stuck now.
This is the what now moment of the story as they see the chaos this land has wrought. They still need to return home, so they do.
Notes: He is always at that level and he is going to be someone who drains magic from those around him and will be the only one who can destroy the lich king. This is going to be a later story, perhaps twenty years or more.
Part of me wants this power to be realized in this story where he returns home to face the sister and ends up facing that rogue army and his abilities weaken the mage enough for everyone to take him and makes him a hero.
This is the end of the novel. I’ve enjoyed the write and now that it is outlined I want to spend the rest of NanoWrimo working through some of the individual chapters.