“For a new mage or someone who isn’t so strong in the power, this connection is slight. It’s steady but not strong. It is easily blocked off. Fo...r someone, like you for example, who is very powerful, the connection is strong and hard to sever.” She thought for a minute and then continued. “Imagine it like a straw. The stronger the person is in the magic, the thicker the straw. It can be a thin straw for someone weak or a thick hose for a powerful mage.” She held up two fingers joined into a. .shoving him around teasing taunting...knocked his books to the ground..I wanted to step in and say something...but they were bigger than both of us...asshole jock types...loved picking on any of us that were smaller...showing off...always like three or four of them picking on one lonne k** that couldnt possibly defend himself,....I hated those assholes...but...I guess they either got bored or decided he wasnt worth the effort..cuz they just walkked off laughing ...I went over and haelped jimmy. Astrid was most likely stationed in a strategic position, waiting to shoot Iona in the heart with a poisoned arrow.Without any other choice, she went to her room and sat on her bed with her hands clasped. She sat there for quite some time thinking.What was she expecting? There was not anything truly experienced on the Long Ship to solidify a personal relationship between the two—especially not sexually. His only actual physical contact with her body included a harsh spanking and harsher… She. But fortunately, once the answer came to me I realized it was an answer that actually didn't have much to do with my feelings for him. Latching onto that as a way to get past my own defenses, I sighed and explained, "I didn't tell you this before, but Deedee tried to seduce me a couple of weeks ago." Really?"I nodded. "It was that day we first got assigned to kitchen duty together. She'd been flirting with me off and on for about a week, and then after dinner she followed me back to the cabins.