The prisoner is escaping!

[rowan_narrators]

Who: Devorah, Ginny, Cedric, Cherry, the Mother, Evelyn, various NPCs.
What: Rescuing the Mother
Where: the City Center
When: Sunday night/Monday morning

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[rowan_narrators]

Niko snapped into focus immediately, despite the lingering fatigue from the battle, the long march back to Jhelbor. Invisibility -- that was a new trick, but he had his arsenal ready for that. His hands twitched into the symbol for reveal, then multiply, and he started casting them, one by one, flicking them into corners, down the hallway.

Fifteen seconds, maybe, for each casting. Too long, too long, but he couldn't make it go any faster.

He didn't even feel the theft of the keys, so absorbed was he in casting the spells.

[senator_zosima]

Slammed into the wall by force of raw magic as her journal flew away from her, sharp SMACK of pain and then -

black.

Blood dripped between her cracked skull and brain.

Zosima's dead body crumpled to the floor.

[rowan_narrators]

Oh, Evelyn reflected as she saw dark stars of pain blooming across her vision, unknowingly echoing Devorah's thought, that won't work at all.

She had meticulously lived her way through people's minds while they were tortured to break down their will to resist. Physical pain would not deter her in the slightest.

She ignored the throbbing ache reverberating through her head from Devorah's blow and focused on the other minds at her disposal. Busy, futile sorcerer, viciously effective magician, flailing fire mage.

She took her acute awareness of the stunner's concentration and slid it into the mage's mind like a stiletto into its sheath. GO, she told him, and with a flaring surge of purpose, he trusted her, and obeyed.

A pillar of white-hot fire encased Ginny, immediately catching on her hair and clothes, scorching her skin.

[cedricinshadows]

"Ginny!" Cedric turned to the man controlling the fire, the one who had been playing with that tiny lick of flame when they came up the stairs, and he hit him with everything he had. Pain and rage and stopmovingstophurtingherstop! There wasn't even a spell behind it. He just wanted Kale out of the way. Ginny was still on fire, though. Not white hot any more, not everywhere, but she was still burning and he could hear her choking and oh God what should he do? He pulled the cloak off a fallen soldier, spared half a second to make it invisible, then threw it over Ginny, trying to pull her away from the spot she'd been standing in before anyone could come charging at it.

[cherry_reyer]

The keys were heavy around Cherry's tiny body and her flight pattern sank. She struggled to compensate for the extra weight and, after a moment, managed to regain altitude. She made a straight line for the prisoner's cell, intent on flying straight through the bars, if she could squeeze in. Even as a bird, she was a terrible judge of her own body mass.

Cedric calling out Ginny's name caught her attention however and she turned to look. Oh gods.