Zero Hour

[Bjorn]

Having conquered sleep, Bjorn continues to wait for Lindsey's communication, barring interruptions.

[Brian]

"Either I am less observant than I should be, or he did not change until after we returned to the keep," Mirallia says, opening the door to the room.  She pauses, and smiles slightly.  "Hello, Bjorn.  Did we wake you?"

[Bjorn]

Bjorn opens his eyes.  "No," he says.  "Did you have a... good meeting with Lindsey?"

[Brian]

"I found it informative," Mirallia says.  "Confusing, but informative none-the-less."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn snorts slightly.  "Be careful of her," he says, without any note of rancour in his voice.

[Rezantis]

"No kidding," puts in Rez, sticking his head through the door, "getting enough sleep lately?"

[Bjorn]

Bjorn ponders that.  "Probably not," he says finally.  "But there isn't much choice."

[Rezantis]

"Mm. I'm going to go and get some myself very soon.  We do need to catch up and compare notes on a few things, though."

[Bjorn]

Bjorn nods.  "I likely won't be hard to find," he says with a touch of dark humour.

[Rezantis]

"Ha," Rez pauses, "you're mostly aware of what the stormriders have been up to?"

[Bjorn]

Bjorn frowns.  "You were destroying supply trains, right?  And then recovering the refugees at various temples, and Gatemaster Eske."

[Rezantis]

"Mostly, yes.  A couple of quick things you probably should be aware of, since you're on the tactical staff or whatnot . . . firstly, we suspect the dreadmarch has someone or something similar to gatemaster Eske, although we haven't seen it used - we suspect this because they managed to get a force from their citadel to the temple of Hamar in extremely short order . . . either that or they just happened to have more than one million strong support groups lying around.  The second is that my sword is capable of shattering weapons or armor that it makes contact with - I'm not sure how it reacts with magical weapons, but I suspect that unless they can counter archonae craft they'd have trouble with it."

Rez pauses.

"They seemed fairly relevant, really.  On a more prosaic note, we think we killed about 80,000 of the dreadmarch while we were out there.  Quite a bloody mess.  And . . . do you know anything about the other Pax Arcana, apart from Lindsey and Liandral?"

[Bjorn]

"One is a Lorekeeper by the name of Serril Dewer," Bjorn replies.  "Apparently, the other two are south with the Archonae."  He frowns.  "You should know that -- Lindsey told us.  I don't know how she knew."

He shakes himself, and then eyes Nathan.  "Either come in and shut the door, or let's save this for another time.  No need to advertise."

[Brian]

Mirallia shakes her head and opens the inner door, lighting some candles in the main room, and stoking the fire (which is now quite low).  "There's room for you to sit," she calls, before moving to the writing desk.

Alec frowns, and calls from his spot a bit down the hall, "I'll watch your door for you."

[Rezantis]

"Actually, Alec, one second."

Rez steps in and says quietly to Bjorn, "Mirallia said something that confused Alec, and, well, Drac compounded it and it went from there.  So I think, in this case, I'd better spill."