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[incantates]

[ Please enjoy the communication-enabling device magically hovering in the air and capturing Magnus as he wriggles something that looks awfully dragon-eye shaped at the screen. It's 30cm of pure what the fuck. ]

Oh, don't mind me showing up uninvited in the middle of dinner. I just felt I should make a follow-up report to all interested parties on our recent expedition to the Sibilant Sands –courtesy of one depressed dragon lord named Cain, a plucky group of fellow curious minds, and a beautiful Shadowhunter who had to pick through bones with me for hours. I had my skepticism about dropping in on a pair of advertised coordinates with little planning, but, you know, I'm an adventurer at heart.

[ Lucky for him and everyone else who joined, it worked out about as well as mysterious expeditions into creepy wastelands could work out. ]

So... curious thing about this eye! Apparently, the magic imbued within makes it easier for the owner to parse through whatever illusory enchantments have been running amuck in Serthica. How did I learn this? Well, I advise you look away now if you're faint of stomach.

[ Magnus keeps his grip on the eye with one hand and uses the other to magically produce a small visual replica of what he'd witnessed in the form of a floating, nearly transparent screen, reflecting exactly what Magnus saw when he positioned the eye on the dragons that were loaned to them by Cain, who were brimming with good health, versus Lethe, who was... well, definitely not alive. ]

...Not pretty, I know, but it could have some practical applications on how we move forward unraveling the great mysteries of this world.

[ At least, he hopes. ]

Comments

[bravelyrunsaway]

Almost, but you will, because we need knowing before we're marching back on train to the citadel. Are the people down here at least living, or were they corrupted at the same time as the citadel?

[incantates]

I haven't checked yet, although I wouldn't hold my breath, considering how many people were wiped out during the great plague. I suspect a good portion of the undead are walking among us obliviously.

[bravelyrunsaway]

Those who died and those who never were. Arabella, do you guess she is one of these people of the sacks?

[incantates]

Zhou Fei had been wondering the same, and I was hoping we would have returned by now so I could examine her better. The eye might give us good insight next time I manage to get close enough to her.

[ He just needs to find a way back to Serthica first... ]

[bravelyrunsaway]

So whenever we can wander up to the platform city.

[incantates]

I'm still working on that part. Normally, it would be a simple teleportation away, but that doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

[ He has yet to figure out why but imagines something dire is going on in their absence. ]

[bravelyrunsaway]

... You're being limited by this citadel's influences? Here I thought it was only those who touched life and death.

[incantates]

Surprise, surprise, maybe I've done a little of both. I think we all may have inadvertently, although Five is the only other person I know who also can teleport to check.

[ Where are all the other warlocks when he needs them... ]