The Three Rules of the Marks

Looking, traveling, taking.

The whole reader-facing magic, cut to three lines: looking is free but loud, traveling costs a name off your skin, and nobody may take over a body.

One. Looking is free, but it is loud, and the wrong people can feel it. Speak the hand-marks and a flower of pale circles opens on the wall, each circle an hour, a time you can look into through any pair of glasses Bram charges with his own body. Two. Traveling spends a name off the skin, and a name eaten is a name gone. Three. Taking over a body is the line you do not cross. Everything else in the world hangs off those three.

Revealed in The Names I Woke With Book One of The Borrowed Dead

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