What It Does
A line of light, drawn and held — the light is the answer, and the line is the whole argument, and the dark is the one who does not cross. It is the light school's answer to the fire school's hearth wall: the wall burns, and the line does not burn, and the line is the one the dark has to stand in.
The Cost
Circle 2 · Light · Exchange: breath — casting time one round. On the ladder in The Veil, the breath rung is the price.
The Failure
The line holds the shape a beat too long, and the light keeps the tension — the line is the one who answers, and the one who is answered is the dark that was already the gap.
In Stories
The journeyman's light spell; the one the camp casts when the line is the argument and the dawn is the one who has to hold.
The door's scale anchor is Luminary — the dragon casts it without thinking, which is how a reader learns the shape of the thing.