“But what if she is? Wouldn’t you want to at least try to do something?”

“For what purpose?” He snapped. “It sounds to me like you left the girl good as dead.”

“I cast a time loop over that part of Littlewater. Any person who enters the area will be forced into it. It will keep her safe for now, but it won’t last forever.”

“No way some low-class spellcaster could pull something like that off. Did you see it? She just closed her eyes… and t-then…his skin started sliding off. Like it was melting. What the hell kind of magic does that?”

“I’m just trying to make sense of all this mess.”