He nodded grimly as to finding Wessex's weaknesses, though from what he'd seen and heard, sunlight and fire no longer troubled her like they did other Ascended. "Electricity should still work," he mused. "At least, as far as I know. It seems to slow them down. Most Ascended are particularly flammable; fire and sunlight are a danger to them, but Wessex seems to have gained some protection from both." The fiery little luxere, at least, hadn't even seemed to phase her.
Her strange ultimatum earned a raised brow from the bard. "Who else," he asked quietly, "has fought to keep the Ascended from your land? Fought and bled for it, Captain? I regret that I did not succeed - that it took a goddess's intervention to stop me from doing so - but who else has put action to their words?" The Captain herself, perhaps?
"So. The Voice sent Zariah here over a year ago before the Ascended could travel by portal, and now her fellow Launceleyn is not only ruler, but Ascended as well. Meanwhile her Academy brings more impressionable young mages seeking power into the fold, while the Voice hones her skills at turning Abandoned as well as Accepted into her Ascended pawns." He summed up the situation as he saw it as succinctly as possible, watching Morgan soberly. "It seems, Captain, that your fears are not unfounded. Do you have a plan for how to deal with this? ...Even if it means going against the Eirachi's will?" He was not the only one who would need to pick sides, after all.
Her strange ultimatum earned a raised brow from the bard. "Who else," he asked quietly, "has fought to keep the Ascended from your land? Fought and bled for it, Captain? I regret that I did not succeed - that it took a goddess's intervention to stop me from doing so - but who else has put action to their words?" The Captain herself, perhaps?
"So. The Voice sent Zariah here over a year ago before the Ascended could travel by portal, and now her fellow Launceleyn is not only ruler, but Ascended as well. Meanwhile her Academy brings more impressionable young mages seeking power into the fold, while the Voice hones her skills at turning Abandoned as well as Accepted into her Ascended pawns." He summed up the situation as he saw it as succinctly as possible, watching Morgan soberly. "It seems, Captain, that your fears are not unfounded. Do you have a plan for how to deal with this? ...Even if it means going against the Eirachi's will?" He was not the only one who would need to pick sides, after all.
