Her own magic was muddled, a touch of this and that, but Zoe had found her life’s work in restoration. She could lose herself in the maps, her light touch turning a broken thing into something those with real magic could travel through once more. She was a little in awe of the Blood Mapwalkers, those who could travel through maps, even create their own, whose very essence could transform the boundaries of the world. Her abilities seemed paltry in comparison, but she did what she could.
At the British Library, Zoe had been responsible for tracing the provenance of older maps, finding those with magic imbued within them so they could be separated from purely Earthside cartography. The collection held in excess of four million individual maps, and even with her touch of weaver magic, Zoe couldn’t work fast enough. But she must have done something right because now she was here, in the Ministry at Bath, part of the Antiquities team drafted in to help Restoration after the fire.
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