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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seravin" data-source="post: 2814131" data-attributes="member: 6783">The Concerns of WizardsThe room was warm despite the outside temperatures, but the cold knot in Master Wymeah’s belly still kept twisting about. The situation was bad. Not grave, not serious, not a cause for some concern; but bad. The little girl that she had been too many decades ago wanted her to run and hide. That girl was sixty years and more gone though; she was now a Master of the Library and it was time to shoulder her responsibilities.Master Wymeah was still at Healing House, overseeing the healer’s efforts. Once Abron had fallen his healers had isolated the rest of the wizards, fearing some sort of infection. Besides Master Asuras, some eighteen other students were laying catatonic in a room that should have held only fifteen beds. Master Asuras was the worst off, sweating and quietly moaning as if experiencing some nightmare; but even the students were having problems. Some of them were now conscious, but their eyes held less intelligence than a dog. They were all frightened and incapable of reasoning beyond the fright.Eighteen…Master Wymeah began to count, matching faces to names. Maius, Presin, Lissa, Boren… Only eighteen apprentices and journey-mages. Five of the students were missing. Akin, Kel, Nayen, Sorrus and Tanin were not here. The cold knot in Wymeah’s belly tightened and she fled the room, seeking a healer.---“I watched them load the carriages!” Master Wymeah’s voice was not shrill; not quite. “They were all sent over!”Master Abron’s face was grave. “I understand that Master Wymeah; but all the wizards we received were placed in that room once my staff thought a disease was at work. If you would accompany me though, we will check the rest of the ward and make sure they weren’t misplaced.”Master Wymeah nodded, tight-lipped. She would look, but she already knew they wouldn’t find the students. She wondered if she could dare use a divination of her own. Who knew what poisoned buildings lay about.---It was all wrong; terribly wrong. Master Wymeah couldn’t tell what was happening, but she could see an edge. The Corlean Library was being attaked by someone very clever. Master Asuras, the most powerful of the wizards in Corlean, was poisoned; his own permanently applied magics being used against him. Then their own building was poisoned, felling her students. It was dumb luck that Wymeah herself wasn’t felled earlier by the poisoned building, but the City Watch request to capture Jallarzi had interrupted her divination attempts.Someone wanted the Library out of the way. Master Wymeah grimaced, a part of her wanting to fight, but she had other duties right now. Master Shallon wasn’t due back for weeks so it was her decision alone. She needed to get the remaining students and Master Asuras to safety first before anyone else disappeared. Afterwards she would find her missing charges.Jallarzi and the priests Jared and Kellron were visiting another nearby church, a shrine to Tasa, the earth mother to see if everything was okay there. She would warn Jallarzi of the missing students, as she was an obvious next target, and then take her students home. So deciding, Master Wymeah went to find a private room to perform a sending.</blockquote>

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