Aside from being the guildleader of the Loreseekers and having sources of his own? Jigano's smile was a pained thing with little humor in it. "Once, Safrin looked more favorably on me. Or at least, she tolerated me while I was in Amalia's presence. We learned things from her, last Flowerbirth, before the Barrier fell. I shared them at a public meeting, but..." He shrugged, for Loren had been long gone by then. "Few attended, and fewer seem to have remembered what I said." One could lead a horse to water, and all that.
Loren's options weren't great, but Jigano nodded unhappily in agreement as he closed his fingers around the sphere. Utilizing simple sleight of hand he made it disappear back into his sleeve, though it would look like magic to anyone not expecting such a simple street-magician's trick from a true mage. "There's a whole host of reasons I don't want to wait for the Ascended," he admitted with a grimace. "Not least that marble and what it represents. Nor the lack of guarantee that the next portal will conveniently go to our missing friends. Asking Neron might be the best option, if you don't mind approaching him? I'll be looking for mage glass for him soon, in an old mine at Whitebrim, but I doubt he'll want to speak to me before I get back from that little jaunt."Because what is a timeline?
Loren's options weren't great, but Jigano nodded unhappily in agreement as he closed his fingers around the sphere. Utilizing simple sleight of hand he made it disappear back into his sleeve, though it would look like magic to anyone not expecting such a simple street-magician's trick from a true mage. "There's a whole host of reasons I don't want to wait for the Ascended," he admitted with a grimace. "Not least that marble and what it represents. Nor the lack of guarantee that the next portal will conveniently go to our missing friends. Asking Neron might be the best option, if you don't mind approaching him? I'll be looking for mage glass for him soon, in an old mine at Whitebrim, but I doubt he'll want to speak to me before I get back from that little jaunt."
