[ Ambrose raises a singular bushy eyebrow in the vein of did I stutter? But Stephen will still be afforded a more lengthy explanation for his promotion. ]
Don't be foolish. We wouldn't-...no, I wouldn't extend this level of trust without the background.
[ Ambrose claps his hands twice. From outside the room, one of the guards shuffles in and presents the High Mage with a leather wrapped tome. Without any thanks, Ambrose waves the man off and the door shuts quietly behind them.
He unwraps the tome with more urgency than he had shown making his way to this interrogation turned job faire. After flipping through various pages, he lands on one in particular and lays the book open on the table, turning it so that it can face Stephen upright.
What Stephen will see are a list of initials, most likely names but clearly redacted for privacy reasons, as well as dates and a series of minute measurements beside each date. The earliest dates are from late December. The measurements themselves are stable. ]
What you and your team set up is a network not just for measuring fluxes of activity from the Singularity itself, but also the magical output. As I'm sure you've noticed in your own pursuits, the magic that comes out of the Singularity itself is unique. So unique that everyone but the Summoned can't interact with it without risk of injury, sickness, but most often death.
[ He taps his finger to the measurements themselves. ]
...And it seems that the risks we took with the Dimming this past year had some unintended consequences.
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Don't be foolish. We wouldn't-...no, I wouldn't extend this level of trust without the background.
[ Ambrose claps his hands twice. From outside the room, one of the guards shuffles in and presents the High Mage with a leather wrapped tome. Without any thanks, Ambrose waves the man off and the door shuts quietly behind them.
He unwraps the tome with more urgency than he had shown making his way to this interrogation turned job faire. After flipping through various pages, he lands on one in particular and lays the book open on the table, turning it so that it can face Stephen upright.
What Stephen will see are a list of initials, most likely names but clearly redacted for privacy reasons, as well as dates and a series of minute measurements beside each date. The earliest dates are from late December. The measurements themselves are stable. ]
What you and your team set up is a network not just for measuring fluxes of activity from the Singularity itself, but also the magical output. As I'm sure you've noticed in your own pursuits, the magic that comes out of the Singularity itself is unique. So unique that everyone but the Summoned can't interact with it without risk of injury, sickness, but most often death.
[ He taps his finger to the measurements themselves. ]
...And it seems that the risks we took with the Dimming this past year had some unintended consequences.