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Chapter 15 by Torel Torel

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Go to Irving

You decide to go straight to him and talking to him about the situation. It hasn't been a long time since you left from Irving's office and so he is still seated at his desk, staring into papers.

" First enchanter ? May I come in ? " You ask after knocking on the opened door.

" Ahh. Back so soon. Sadly I must deal with Greagoir's demands and papers before I do anything else. Come back in the evening. We need to discuss your duties as a circle mage. "

" I will always take you up on that offer first enchanter. But I wanted to talk about Jowan. When is it going to be time for his Harrowing ? "

" He will go when he is ready. "

" He is ready now. "

" I'm sure you think so but it is not for you to decide. Why do you ask ? "

" Because he thinks he will be turned into a tranquil. "

" And how does he know this ? I suppose the young initiate he dallies with revealed it to him. "

" So it is true ? Why are you doing this to him ? "

" Greagoir says he has proof and eye witnesses about Jowan practicing blood magic. I cannot say more. Were it left to me... things would be different. But the chantry... I'm sorry my dear. This rite of Tranquility will happen. " You sigh and look up at Irving.

" Then you must know about their plan to escape. "

" Oh ? Interesting. What else do you know. "

" I only know that he plans on destroying his phylactery. "

" And I suppose his lady friend is involved ? Yes, she must be helping him. She has more knowledge over the repository than he has. Do you know more ? "

" They plan to use a rod of fire to get past the doors. "

" And for that you need me to sign a request for you otherwise Owain will not give it to you. "

" Well, I didn't get that far yet. I came here to talk to you about it. "

" Hmm. The rod will not help either way. But I want you to go forth with their plan. We cannot stop Jowan from becoming tranquil but we can make sure one of the chantry's people will be punished as well. "

" Isn't that a little cruel ? "

" The chantry wants to keep all mages under so much control. Let's see what they will do if one of them will be helping one of us. Here, I should have one of those requests here. Give it to Owain and then proceed with their plan. Once you get out from the room I will be waiting there with both Gregoir and templars to catch them both. And as for you, you don't have to worry about yourself. I will explain everything. Tell them you worked under my orders. "

" Course. "

With that you collect your rod of fire and return to Lily and Jowan. From there you go together to the basement and after not getting inside through the main doors, you go around the whole complex, through various dust and spider web rooms until you finally got to the room filled with little vials and bottles. After finding the one with Jowan's name on it, he drops it to the ground and rejoiced in the freedom. As you leave and go up the stairs, your happiness is quickly cut short once the knight-commander, first enchanter and a squad of templars advance on your position.

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