Winterfall

It didn’t take me long to reach Theo’s office and to my surprise he was waiting outside for me.

“Glad to see that you are in one piece.”

He did a quick glance and pulled me in for a brief hug. “I assume you didn’t call me here for a hug?” I said with a tease as I stepped back from his grasp.

“I figured you needed an escape goat.” Theo opened his office door and led me inside, closing it behind us.

I have been in his office on a few occasions. Most of the time I see his office through his eyes. His office was grand with his large oak desk at the center with a backdrop of a stained glass wall that featured our kingdom. In front of his desk were two sturdy oak chairs for visitors to sit. Upon the left wall he had shelves displaying various weapons. On the right wall he had artwork of the mountain range he trained in.

He picked me up and sat me on his desk. His desk was taller than most desks, so I couldn’t just sit myself on it. He walked around and sat in his chair that was made of fine leather and oak wood and pulled out a file.

“What’s that?” I asked as I pointed to the file.

“A file on Sybil.”

My eyes went wide, “you have an open case?”

“A secret open case. I don’t want the other guards worrying about a missing council member just yet.”

“Have you found anything?”

“I went to her home the other day. When I said I had paperwork to do that was a cover up. There was blood and burn marks around the room but her body wasn’t there. I had Quinn come take a look to see if I missed anything but she didn’t see anything new either.”

“Do you think she is dead?”

“With how much blood was in her home, it would surprise me if she lived.”

“Can you use Ghostly Insight to see if you can track her?”

He scratched his head, “I can try, but if she is dead it will not work.” I nodded and watched him.

He pulled out a drawer and pulled out a very fancy mirror. The mirror was used for the caster to view the target. I watched him frown as the mirror lit up as the spell took effect. “Failed. As expected.”

“Have you attempted to locate her with Locate Entity?” Locate Entity allowed a certain creature to be traced on the same plane as the caster.

“I tried around her home but nothing picked up.” Theo handed me the file so I can look through it, “Let me know if you see something different.”

I nodded and scanned the documents. Blood. So much blood. No body. Chard walls. Reeks of dragon. Crimson looking like a suspect. Clothes missing.

There was nothing out of the ordinary in the file, “just meets our expectations that Crimson could be the killer.”

Theo nodded and took the folder back and put it back in the drawer, “now that that is out of the way, what are the rest of your plans today?”

“Well, now that you got me out of my adventure with Marcel, I think we both deserve a bit of fun ourselves.”

He smiled at that idea, “I'd hope you would say that.”

“What were you thinking?”

“Well, first off let me use Restoration to your mental state. You are still a bit buzzed.” I nodded and allowed him to cast a bit of healing magic to remove the rest of the effects of the mead. He then casted it on himself as he too was affected since he took some of the effects from me. “Better.” He looked at me with a smile on his face, “I can think of a few things we could do.”

“Like?” I had a feeling what he was referencing and I wouldn’t mind that at all.

“Good. Let me just cast Silence and Lock first.” He ended up casting the spell lock first to insure that his office door was locked.

“You want to do it here?”

“Why not? The guards are all on rounds. We have time.”

“Or maybe we can wait until later tonight. Craft something in our dreams.”

As much as I would love to do it in his office, I had a bit of class and honestly, I was worried that we would get caught.

“Alright, we will wait for tonight then.”

“Thank you my dear.” I kissed his lips, “I should probably get back to the castle, see you in four hours?”

“I wouldn’t miss it.” He kissed me back. “I can teleport you there to save you the walk.”

I thought about it briefly, “sure. I think when I get back there I’ll stay around my room.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

He gave me one more kiss and in a flash I appeared in my bedroom. Thank you dear. I told Theo as I sat down on my bed and curled up in a ball. Looking out my window that spanned the greenery around the castle.