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in which the wind makes bluebell rifts

It's never good news when one of the lookouts comes sprinting down into the village and hammers on her door.

At least this just looks like weird news. Coming down the path towards the village is... well, she's going to get into detect magic range and find out what it is. 'Snake with a mirror for a head' is not exactly a standard herald description, it could be Day or Autumn or Night or, anything really.

She strides out down the path with her staff, her mage armour properly adjusted, her satchel bag with whatever it happened to have in it, a few lightstones on her belt, and shadowed by a couple of her people with spears - at a sensible distance back, because heralds are Vate business.

As she's just reaching out and incanting a swift detect magic - "Ophis reveal you," muttered so as to hopefully not cause offence, but she really needs to know what it is to approach it correctly - the snake lunges down the path with incredible swiftness, and her staff comes up to parry it but it's like parrying water - instead of connecting with its head, she gets caught off balance by the lack of contact, and falls helplessly through...

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in which the wind makes bluebell rifts

It's never good news when one of the lookouts comes sprinting down into the village and hammers on her door.

At least this just looks like weird news. Coming down the path towards the village is... well, she's going to get into detect magic range and find out what it is. 'Snake with a mirror for a head' is not exactly a standard herald description, it could be Day or Autumn or Night or, anything really.

She strides out down the path with her staff, her mage armour properly adjusted, her satchel bag with whatever it happened to have in it, a few lightstones on her belt, and shadowed by a couple of her people with spears - at a sensible distance back, because heralds are Vate business. If this is a known herald, the constellation of the Fountain tattooed down her right cheek should let it know what kind of business she means.

As she's just reaching out and incanting a swift detect magic - "Ophis reveal you," muttered so as to hopefully not cause offence, but she really needs to know what it is to approach it correctly - the snake lunges down the path with incredible swiftness, and her staff comes up to parry it but it's like parrying water - instead of connecting with its head, she gets caught off balance by the lack of contact, and falls helplessly through...

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in which the wind makes bluebell rifts

It's never good news when one of the lookouts comes sprinting down into the village and hammers on her door.

At least this just looks like weird news. Coming down the path towards the village is... well, she's going to get into detect magic range and find out what it is. 'Snake with a mirror for a head' is not exactly a standard herald description, it could be Day or Autumn or Night or, anything really.

She strides out down the path with her staff, her mage armour properly adjusted, her satchel bag with whatever it happened to have in it, a few lightstones on her belt, and shadowed by a couple of her people with spears - at a sensible distance back, because heralds are Vate business. If this is a known herald, the constellation of the Fountain tattooed down her right cheek should let it know what kind of business she means.

As she's just reaching out and incanting a swift detect magic - "Ophis reveal you," muttered quietly so as to hopefully not cause offence, but she really needs to know what it is to approach it correctly - the snake lunges down the path with incredible swiftness, and her staff comes up to parry it but it's like parrying water - instead of connecting with its head, she gets caught off balance by the lack of contact, and falls helplessly through...