February 14th: Announcements and Political Maneuverings

Snarg suddenly loses interest in his conversation with Baigen. "Wha-what? It was calling out to you? Put it away before it does something again, here, don't bring it out for everyone!" He grabs a sack and tosses it towards Hanuel." Its probably heard everything we've been saying so far. Taking it yourself is the sure way to get trapped by it or whoever owns it. No use in doing that!"

"Snarg, they don't need the Mirror to spy on us. Maybe it helps. But they can do without it."

*Z is calmly leaning against a lamp post watching the image of the Lady across the street being emitted from a similar lamp post.*

"There's a reason I kept it wrapped up! I don't think it can do much of anything without someone directly interacting with it. Either way, it's not safe to keep it in the city any longer than we have to."

"Hanuel... that thing is probably just a portal to one of their towers where they experiment on people. They only want people to use it, but we resisted so far. And like I said, they can probably spy on us without it."

"Oh, right, let's just give it every bit of help then. Why bother doing anything about it?" Snarg stares at Zeiss closely. "You said it 'tempts' people, right, Hanuel? That it tries to take you using its own whim?"

"Look, can we just find a mage who's good at weaving to negate its scrying?"

"It certainly seemed to have that effect on Kolson. Rory and I were able to shake off the effects, and after only a short time Kolson broke free as well."

Zeiss says to Rory :

"Well, the ones from the Mirrored Towers talked to me while I was in prison. So a weaver would not be much help."

"What did they say to you?"

"It probably told him whatever he wanted to hear. If not the communication, then we should negate the risk for touching it."

Zeiss turns to Hanuel, ignoring Rory.

"Wanted me to find some people to experiment on. Break and twist their souls for their own purposes. Maybe it has something to do with Kez and that crystal... Either way, they offered freedom in exchange of submitting to them."

Hanuel slams their fist into the table. "Frelling monsters!"

Rory silently stuttered at Zeiss blatant cold shoulder before replying, "Case in point."

Zeiss laughs at little at Hanuel's reaction, with a bit of worry in it.

"Call them monsters all you want Hanuel. They don't care."

And to Rory :

"We should destroy it. I know nothing about magic, but since it is emitting non elemental energies, what about using elemental energies to break it?"

"They'll care when I start hunting them down." Hanuel says quietly, in a voice filled with venom.

"Gods' graces, Fairy, get a grip," Rory comments incredulously.

Hanuel visibly makes the effort to relax, though the tension doesn't leave them entirely. "I can't just stand by idly Rory. Not with how they torture people. Not with the chaos they cause."

Zeiss sighs at Hanuel's comment.

"when you say they talked to you in prison what do you mean? in your head? in person?"

"I heard it. That's all."

"that is interesting as you spent most of your time in prison in a temporal flux for us half a day passed for you it was 3 or more days so ever its reach is a lot longer that been near the key, it can interact with anyone that has touched the key in the past or and this is the most worrying bit it was some how involved with your imprisonment?"

Snarg frustratingly clenches the air several times before sighing and dropping his hands to his sides. "It's too soon for this. Let me know when you're done in here, at least." he growls. Collecting Zipar, he turns and leaves the room.

Ashakel spoke up for the first time. "Baigen, we have information that they were keeping a Centaur in prison. Do you have any idead who is he, and what has he done? What is going on at Stonehold?"

After Tabran finishes his monologue, Zeiss stays immobile for a few moment.

"...I don't know."

He then looks at Snarg who leaves the room, probably tired of the whole situation.