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[color=crimson]"Wvysen's dead, Penny."[/color]

Penny's irritatingly lengthy [i]short version[/i] was met with an answer no less short, cold and precise than her very own scalpel. Even if it wasn't the original her scalpel was in effect no worse than the tool she was handed down by her tutor. Less sentimental perhaps but Trypano was no creature of sentiments.

[color=crimson]"While your work thus far is appreciated in your absence our group was collectively ambushed by Black Rezaindians that the princess claims were agents of her uncle, the sitting king of Segona. Among them was an atomic specialist who killed Wvysen in their opening attack. While we ultimately killed every aggressor we were aware of Onarr was badly mauled by their kineticist and several civilians were caught in the crossfire between the atomic mage, Benedetto and Ingrid."[/color]

Finished with catching Penny up with what went on while she was captured Trypano turned, looking out to see Ingrid making her way over on a block of ice. Poorly, as it would seem. Taking everything mentioned so far into consideration she proceeded onwards, not even bothering to look over as she continued to speak.

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[color=crimson]"Once what remains of our group is gathered we will need to discuss our plan moving forward from here. The princess is determined to wage naval battle with the Maria Nera as she's convinced it now contains allies of her uncle on board."[/color]

She paused right as she was about pass Penny in grabbing the lantern from beneath the nearby stool. She was not blind to Penny's defensiveness. While it would be easy enough to dismiss it as her not taking the situation seriously enough she was well aware that she oft' off-put people with how clinical she was. It was simply hammered into her, both from those surrounding her throughout her childhood and her training as a nurse during her tutelage. She had always been introspective, removed even but even her brother could see how these things had pushed her to detach herself emotionally from everyone and everything. What he recognized however was that she could still feel them, well and far below the cold exterior. She was perhaps more passionate than anyone regarding the things she truly cared about. For but a brief moment she looked over to Penny, face remaining the same but with her tone ever slightly softer, less sharp than her words prior.

[color=crimson]"We'll need to decide whether to back the princess's gambit or take what we have and exfiltrate ourselves. Consider what you now know carefully before you decide."[/color]

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Her attention was then drawn away by Desmond's haphazard attempt to board the ship which resulted in them landing in a heap atop one another. This might of been funny or perhaps a little embarrassing to witness given Ingrid's state of dress for others. For her it was little more than a momentary distraction from the truth that most of their group was now assembled aboard the ship. There was little need for her to brief them. They knew what she knew and Penny was unlikely to bogart her info from them if she was so willing to divulge it to her. It was time to see to the last piece of this puzzle: The Lantern.

She procured the item out from beneath the stool and gave it a look-over. It's make was of a lamp old enough to fit the bill, a simple design with a mere candle within. She made sure to clear the interior out of any debris that might have found it's way inside during Penny's retrieval of it before drying the wick with her fingers and using a basic Arcane spell to light it. Given that Arcane was the chosen school of the god this artifact was in tribute to it was fitting to see if using such magic would provoke a response from it. All the while she was using her binding to monitor the amount of energy running through it's material form. If it truly was of divine origin and not just a relic given ceremonial purpose then it would undoubtably have a magical signature of some form. As a binder she was quite familiar with the art of crafting enchanted objects like so. Seemed this item shouldn't be exempt from the same principles.

But the only way to know for sure was to test it.

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