Summer 964 MC*
(*Mercerian Calendar)
Albreda, Mistress of the Whitewood, entered the room only to notice that the other mages were already gathered.
"I see everyone is present," she said, taking her seat.
"Everyone except for Master Revi Bloom," corrected Aubrey.
"Yes," Albreda agreed, "the very subject of this emergency meeting." She looked at each mage in turn. It was a small council, consisting of only four members now that the Royal Life Mage had gone missing, a reminder that magic only existed in Merceria by a most tenuous thread.
"Queen Anna has asked Albreda to oversee this council in Revi"s absence," explained Aubrey.
"Fine by me," remarked Aldus Hearn, the elderly Earth Mage.
"As it should be," agreed the Kurathian Enchanter, Kiren-Jool.
"I should start by saying that we
