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[i]Clarissa Shields - Director of Research & Technology[/i] at Valhiem's Academy, was stood with her chief staff in the main building hall of campus, discussing Academy matters when they were interrupted by the adventurers.  The extravagent dress-sense of the faculty knew no bounds but their rank and status within the university was made clear by the golden trim bordering their robes.  Clarissa's robes however, an official higher than anyone bar the President, were adorned with a myriad of golden markings, making her stand out even among the group of four.

She stopped mid-sentence and regarded the woman who spoke, her eyes briefly flicking around the others before going back to Fenna as she listened.  When she recieved the letter and saw the seal, she turned to her colleagues.

"We'll continue this later," she said to them and they left.  "If you'd like to follow me," she said to the adventurers, then led them to her office.

Her office was more like the lab of a mad inventor.  There were all manner of contrpations and expermients dotted about the room, machines quietly chugging away and liquids bubbling in beakers and testtubes.  The floor was untidy but remained at least able to navigate, and Clarissa walked across the room as she read the letter, taking a seat on her desktable and crossing her legs while she smiled at the words of Lucinda Bottrill.  A light 'hmmm' escaped her lips as she put the letter to one side, then dreamily looked at Fenna as she thought about the guildmaster.  After a moment she spoke.

"Clarissa Shields, nice to meet you all.  Let's see this mysterious cube then."  When she took the cube, her eyes widened.  Not with alarm, but excitement.  "My-my," she purred.  "This is interesting."

The construction was completely foriegn, but the fine lines inscribed in the metal indicated some kind of information-processing technology.  She looked for a way to open it - unscrew it, maybe - but it wasn't something she'd achieve with her hands.  So she leaned back and twisted around, rather ungracefully and unathletically, to reach one of her deskdrawers.  Retrieving a few handtools, she began trying to pry the cube open in a variety of ways, her tongue poking out of one side of her mouth as she concentrated.

"You said you got this from where?" she asked, unsure if they'd already told her.  In truth, her ears had stopped working the moment she saw this foreign object.  Magic and techonology was her passion, and there was nothing like a new discovery to get her excited.  "Any theories as to what it might be?"

Suddenly she froze, thought for a moment, then put her tools down and cast an [i]Identify[/i] spell.  It looked to the adventurers as if she was casting it on the cube.  She wasn't.  With expertise and well-practised finesse of her right hand, she used three fingers and some words to cast Identify while using the remaining two fingers to sign a simple [i]Illumination[/i] spell on the cube, making it look like the cube was the target of the Idenitfy.

Adam was her true target.

It occured to her that this might be some kind of trap.  One of the first things she noticed about the adventurers was Adam's red eyes.  Most creatures that had red eyes were demons, demon-related or demon-connected.  Clarissa, an adventurer herself, Source Crystal in her left hand, was quite ready to break out into a fight, confident she could handle herself at least until help arrived.  But there was no need.  As The Source filled her mind with a high-level informative status of Adam, she realised that he was indeed a human, with no obvious connection to any demon.  Interesting.  She went back to trying to open the cube.

"Were you born with red eyes?" she asked, then looked up from the cube at Adam.  In addition to the intrusive question, she gave an unwanted comment.  "Not normal in the slightest."