Sildarin wanders about the library, waiting for everyone else to arrive and finish their various tasks.
Zhure, just a quick note - Lucie is my char's familiar in the Of Sound Mind game, not in the Academy. Sorry if that messed you up.
That'll teach me to be in too many games, lol. Doyle is the psicrystal, got it. Sorry.
Charlotte gathers her things and thanks Keith for the company and breakfast. Together they go to talk to the headmaster, Coles.
The headmaster has a large building in which he lives, that also serves as the administration headquarters for the campus. Primarily his duties seem to be involved with dealing with dignitaries and smoothing the ruffled feathers of the august personages of the Empire whose children study at Drell, which might explain the magnificence of his manse.
The house itself is three impressive stories, but the marble blocks used to make it get smaller and smaller as it gets taller, creating a forced perspective making the building loom even larger over the central plaza of the campus.
When Charlotte and Keith arrive, the windows are all shuttered and no one responds at the knock on the door.
Rallyn leaves Serbanas's cottage and goes in search of Agius.
The stroll down the hill toward the village is uneventful. No guards are about and the townsfolk are quiet. The fishermen are probably already out and no one else is moving much this early.
Agius has a temple right on the waterfront, partway over the water, as if it were part of a pier. It's made of stone and has classical ionic columns around the entrance. Unlike most of the southern temples, it lacks an open air entrance. Drell is far colder than most of the Empire. The entrance is painted in a dark countershaded color to offset the white marble, almost creating the illusion of a cavernous entrance. Two continual flames burn at the entrance and a simple stone fountain filled with copper coins and a smattering of silver coins babbles near the path to the door.
The elf who runs the temple, Agius, is sweeping the marble step when Rallyn approaches. He glances up and smiles. After relating your encounter, Agius doesn't seem nearly so happy.
"Those sound like undead," he says, "Perhaps shades or shadows. It's hard to tell by your description. Later today I will go look on the campus and see if I can find any evil influence. Undead are horrid, blashpemous creatures which must be destroyed."
Maerath pays Iulus the cions and returns to the library to give the book to Arana, to give to Mialia to translate.
Not a lot of action today -- I have to go watch AotC and a horrible workload, so I'm going to catch an early nap. Also short post tomorrow, because I work all morning and have a RL game all day (character creation day; I rolled 18, 18, 17, 17, 15,13 -- can't decide what to play, best rolls EVER).
