||event|| Deus ex Machina, but without the box

[rowan_narrators]

Over the next few days, you may notice slightly odd things happening in Jhelbor. Sometimes you think you see wild colors in the corner of your eye, only to turn and see nothing. Sometimes rooms will be clearly illuminated at night without candles or sorcery. And if you're observant, there are a lot of small spiders scuttling around in the corners

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[tenuefarfalla]

Cho stopped moving and held her breath in the silence. Had she woken Kale up? She wasn't sure how she could have. SHe was being so quiet, and her new guest room was even further from the main room than Ianto's had been. No, there was no more noise. Then what had..?

Cho pushed her chair back and looked around the room, wondering if maybe Marmalade had gotten into something she shouldn't have. There was nothing, though. Just her mind playing tricks on her. Then, just as she was about to pull her chair back in and get down to work, the light gleamed off of something dark in the shadows, something that she would have missed completely if not for the coincidence of timing and angle and... something.

She reached for it, and her hand closed around smooth, polished wood, and it wasn't until she brought it into the light that the rushing in her ears started. Impossible. Completely impossible. Cho set it down on the tabletop like she'd been burned and just stared at it. What if she opened it and it was empty? What if she opened it and it wasn't?

It took her at least five minutes to work up the nerve, and when she lifted the lid her throat grew hot and tight and she was surprised that she managed to keep from crying. How was this even possible? "Bret?" Cho looked around the room, as though she expected him to pop up from behind one of the tables. Was it even possible to regulate Wizardry this much?