Kire snorted softly at Ruli and Ysaryn’s opinions on her hair color. “Your responses are obviously rather biased, aren’t they?” she teased, glancing at their heads. Still, Ruli’s reaction to it intrigued her. It certainly had given him pause. 
Gavin looked to them, hands on his hips, curious, but when it seemed that Ruli didn’t go anywhere with the strange déjà vu he had just had, he shrugged. He, too, still had that weird lingering feeling, thinking about his dream, but until another clue presented itself, he would focus more on more immediate tasks. The lad cleared his throat. “Er—well, should we keep going?” he asked, knowing he was put in charge but not knowing how much to assert himself in this situation. 

Narda smirked at the lad’s eagerness, while Kire nodded. “Carry on when you’re ready,” she remarked, stepping back and letting them continue. They still had the business with the forest-town and Daryll’s slim lead afterwards, and she was curious about what developments had happened overnight, despite Myka’s updates only detailing the fevers the residents had been afflicted with. Hopefully the fevers really were simply a result of the erratic climate and not a plague. A plague was the last thing she wanted on her hands at the moment. 

While Daryll took notes, with Precy curious by his side and the other Amrians observing with interest, Gavin went back to work with Ruli. Though now well-acquainted with the task of warding, especially after the siege, Gavin still had moments of uncertainty, more out of self-doubt than actual lack of expertise, and he would now and then consult with both Ruli and Envy to make sure he was doing things properly and not accidentally summoning some three-headed demon from the pits of hell. 

Later, the moment they were finished, Kire inhaled, feeling the unmistakable signature of the wards as Gavin closed the circuit. “For the rest of us non-magic folk, how does this work? Kire just said it was supposed to glow when a magic-wielder crosses the threshold,” Narda asked Envy. “Would that work on anyone? What if someone tried to hide themselves the way Gavin and Kire did during the siege?”