Explanations

Your anger is suddenly joined by an upswell of fear in the pit of your stomach. What have they done to you?! Your eyes flick from one face to the other and then something in the mirror catches your attention.. a red glow like an ember at your chest. The gnome sees your attention divert and glances over his shoulder.

“Ah yes. In your **** time here we have made one or two alterations that might require some.. hmm.. adjustment”

He leans forward and gently parts the silk at your chest to reveal the elegant knot of runes between your breasts. The red-orange glow emanates from there and it is like nothing you have seen before. The source isn’t quite clear and you can’t move your head far enough to see more than the glow at your peripheral vision.

Grimmauld directs your attention to the mirror again and makes a gesture. The sharp image blurs a moment and then shifts , moving inward toward the glow. You gasp at this new sorcery.. some kind of scrying spell you guess, but like nothing you’ve ever seen. You watch your body fill the mirror frame and then your chest. You don’t have room to feel self conscious just at the moment though, icy fear washing through you as the source of the glow becomes clear just as it begins to die away.

A shiny metallic ring of silvery copper colour is entangled with the runes over your heart, the enscribed markings on it are what produced the glow.

Marissa is also studying the mirror rather than lean close. Her hand grips the braid of her hair tightly.

“With this in place your magic is useless captain. You might as well pour water into a well hoping to drink. This well is deeper than you can imagine.”

She turns her head and raises an eyebrow at the gnome.

“It IS suitably deep, correct? “

He bristles slightly, waving a hand absently.

“Yes yes, it’s perfectly safe. It took long enough to get right!”

He turns to you.

“And it does a lot more than dampen that magic of yours. It’s going to help you to help us put an end to your queen’s plans once and for all”