Resurrecting the Past (Ari)

[Alecsander]

(11 Oct)


Alex warmed the mugs with a quick spell, adding tea from the tin he kept in a drawer. He removed,the leaves once it had steeped, offering one mug to Ari sitting across his large desk. Books and papers were already strewn across the desl, they'd already been working for several hours. Some were books he'd had for,years, others were new tomes that Ari had brought with her.

"I'm not convinced the earthquake was natural. There's a fault there but I've been told it should never,have slipped, much less have that big of an impact. But,how?"

Alex took a sip of his own tea as he thought. He sweetened it with a,little honey, a little known fact. Many probably thought he drank it black as the,devil's soul. He placed it down,carefully and picked up another of the loose papers.

[Elle Callahan]

While Alex steeped the tea, Ari carefully thumbed through a leather tomb that she had sneaked out of the department of mysteries. Her expertise on ancient runes was on loan to the department of magical law enforcement because of the recent rune attacks. She was looking through a book of rituals that used runes. It was a general book that held a collection of rune rituals from a myriad of cultures. It had been written in the 17th century by a historian. She wasn't reading the original only a copy made in the 19th century and therefore not as valuable. Still it was old and fragile.

"I'm not convinced the earthquake was natural. There's a fault there but I've been told it should never,have slipped, much less have that big of an impact. But,how?"

Ari glanced up as Alex spoke. She took a metal book mark she had twisted in her hair and bookmarked the page she had been looking at before closing it. She carefully took the tea, putting in lemon and honey in it. She took a sip thinking about what Alex had said.

"Possibly druid magic. There is a lot of ancient magic that the druids used that was tied to the elements, including earth. Earth magic is used for gathering power. But what would dark wizards being doing with earth magic? Something must have triggered the earthquake. It could have been a side effect of something. Let's assume the earthquake is tied to the rune incidents. Is there anything involved with runes that happened around that time?"