For Arcturyx knew, in speaking with this provincial prodigy, that indeed the theft of not one but three objects of reverence was the work of greater evil than this Aridisia before him or Columba Riverford of Sage ambition, or Marl Gneiss of Adept cupidity, were capable of.
He brought his gaze down to her, wondering that he had not seen in the events of the past five days that which she had brought to his attention. “Your perspicacity merits reward, quill-miss. Alas I may bestow no more than sanction and regret I am not able to provide direction nor protection, as my realm lies beleaguered, in need of its every modest resource. Of these matters the High Magux knows more for the Crypt of Scrolls remains the reliquary of our collective wisdom, documented upon scrolls arcane the body of knowl
