The Pogrom of Mages: The Healers of Glastamear: Volume One by Charles Williamson

will tell everything he knows. Good intentions will not stop the pain of Perry’s Fire.”
    “It’s highly unethical to use except in guild approved circumstances, but all healers know a spell to help those who have undergone an incredible trauma. Amnesia release will cause someone to forget the past week or two. It’s use for people who have experienced terrible events that traumatize their minds, not for this kind of thing.”
    “I think in this case your Guild Master would permit it if your spell will not hurt them permanently.”
    Because of the reef, the sloop could not approach close to the beach. Obert and Michael would need to swim to shore. As they prepared to leave, Michael shook each crewmember’s hand, and each man forgot their recent trip. As Michael jumped into the sea for the swim, he noticed the puzzled looks on the crews’ faces; they didn’t remember who he was or why they were sailing near Black Sand Beach.
    Michael immediately cast water breath . He followed Obert as they swam underwater through a hole in the reef that was five paces below the sea. Once through the opening, Michael saw the town of the naiads. It was built right into the reef and colorful fish swam everywhere entering the naiads’ rooms and swimming all around them. Obert took him to a small room deep in the reef. With shock, Michael realized that it was filled with the treasure of a hundred shipwrecks mixed with tens of thousands of pearls. It was treasure greater than the king’s.
    Obert led Michael to the shore and spoke for the first time once they were on the beach. “We have no shortage of rings and necklaces with jewels for you to enchant. When you travel to Northport, you can go as a pearl merchant. You’ll need human money for horses and ships and such things, and we’ll supply your inventory of pearls. I’ll have some things put in your room in the tower.
    In two or three days, you’ll have learned all the useful spells I can teach you, and you can head for Northport to begin your great quest. Someday, you’ll confront the red dragon and ask her to withdraw her curse, but that is for the future. For now, you must save the humans who can do healing magic lest that skill be lost forever from humankind.”

Chapter 12
     
    The next morning, Michael woke in his tower room to find a waist-high chest. It was worm-eaten from being recovered from a shipwreck. The metal parts were rusty, but the lid opened with a squeak when Michael tried it. It contained a treasure like that from some ancient myth. Its contents were worth more than a great castle and all its lands, worth more than the Great Guild Hospital in Briarton or a dozen trading clippers. There was no way Michael could spend a fraction of it without attracting the attention of both the crown and the church.
    He selected one exceptionally fine ruby amulet for himself. He then chose ten of the least impressive gold rings and ten simple gold chains. The ruby amulet he intended as a present for Diana when he returned to Rock Port. He chose the least impressive rings to enchant because no one but a noble or the richest merchant would be seen with the finest pieces in the chest, and he didn’t want the enchanted rings to attract undue attention to their wearer.
    Michael enchanted the gold chains with transparency and the rings with submerge manna . He also took thirty of the finest pearls and twenty-five gold coins. The pearls would be his inventory while he posed as a merchant. The gold crown coins were enough to buy several small ships or a dozen fast horses to use in helping healers escape.
    He spent the following two days studying with Obert until he could cast every spell they thought useful. On his final evening before heading to Northport, Obert presented him with a chest of clothes recovered from a shipwreck. He explained that they had found the chest still floating near the north edge of the reef many years earlier. It contained clothes appropriate for a