>>5777015The Archmage’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Did you just interrupt me?”
“S-sorry, Madame Archamge.”
Another chilly silence, and then the Elder Henzler turned on heel with eerie fluidity, without so much as a rise and fall or the sound fo a shoe-sole scuffing. Was she… Was she LEVITATING under those layers??
“You ARE a sorry thing,” the Archmage had noted, “and there is more ‘wrogn with you’ than I suspect EITHER of us can begin to comprehend.”
Izirina Henzler pulled down her round-tipped, unbanded student’s cap to cover her eyes and mumbled: “Yes, Madame Archmage.”
Peeking from the corner of the doorway with unavoidable voyeuristic curiosity, you realized with a start that the Archmage—THE FREAKING ARCHMAGE—was headed your way! This entire scene—seeing the ‘golden girl’ get torn a new one by maybe the WORLD’S GREATEST SORCERESS—was so surreal that you almost forgot that you probably weren’t supposed to see or hear all this…
What did you do?
>Confront the Archmage about her treatment of Izirina—you two might not be FRIENDS, but she doesn’t deserve to be treated like that!>Duck and cover—find somewhere to hide! The Archmage is scary—scarier than the rumours, and the rumours say she experiments on troublesome young initiates!>Approach her and make a good first impression—after all, if she values LIFE MAGES, well, you’re top of your gods-damned CLASS! Maybe she’d like to talk shop…?>Write-in 