The fourth archmage Varessa listened to Yoreus’s speech with growing ire.
Woken up early in the morning, she hadn’t expected the news of a demon arriving in Kaighal, and even though she had to praise the first archmage’s prompt response in raising a barrier to provide immediate protection for all the teachers and students, she’d expected to be summoned to a war meeting, not to a one-sided oration by the most pompous man Kaighal might know.
Varessa fought to keep a sigh from escaping her mouth. She’d have even settled for being overlooked when it came to making decisions about the threat, since she had little knowledge or experience to contribute, but if the first archmages didn’t want anyone’s advice and insights, he should have presented something more elaborate than a speech with littl
