Meliara pours herself a glass of wine and sips at it while the Queen speaks. Suddenly the Queen is quiet and staring intently at their group.
Lia clears her throat, "Your Highness," she begins, "I am not sure any of us can tell you what exactly has happened. We do have many incredible stories to tell, I myself would not believe most of them if I had not experienced it myself. It seems when the wardstones went out, well, their power was somehow channeled into each of us sitting here. We believe Iomedae herself was responsible. It also seems as if that power has somehow significantly enhanced the skills we had previous to this gift, or curse, however you see it. For example, I was previously able to manipulate magic. Just earlier today I used a spell I have used frequently since these attacks began, and it was many times more powerful than usual, I almost singed myself in the power of the explosion. Most of my friends here have skills for fighting, a couple others of us can heal, and my brother and myself can manipulate magics and we have all been affected with the advancement of our abilities.
We traveled to a tower in which we believed the cultists were using as a safehouse. We were correct. We fought some cultists there, and also the tiefling in charge, Faxon." Lia suppresses a shiver at speaking his name, "We destroyed them all but left the tower, in case the army wanted to use it to capture more cultists and demons. We found a letter with what we believe are their next schemes and we returned to this part of the city to gather additional information in the library. The letter contains information that refers to the further destruction of the city so we need to act on this quickly. I believe Thorn you are carrying the letter?"
Lia sits back in her seat, takes a sip of wine and waits to see if someone else has something to add to the story.