Volume 10: Thunderous Movements and Winds Rising, Chapter 8: Heavenly Secrets

Like two silent statues, two figures in gray and white stood quietly in the crystal-corridor outside the chapel, as if they had been there for hundreds of years. The various disturbances inside the chapel could not escape the discernment of the two mages.

The unpredictable divine might of the Great Prophecy Spell had brought forth many strange phenomena, which made the two men, who hadn't felt such a sensation in over a decade, sigh in their hearts. When could they reach the realm where the mind acted as freely as the heart? Not now, but that didn't mean never. The Pope had only experience, which shouldn't be a problem.

Wave after wave of power fluctuations signaled that the spellcasting inside the chapel was drawing to a close. Almost at the same moment, both men's gazes met again, each able to discern a hint of joy hidden within the other's surprise.