The common room quiets as Nhal holds the silver charm above the table. Violet script tugs toward a different quarter of Baldur’s Gate, precise as a compass needle.
Nhal
The direction is clear. I can keep the bridge open long enough for you to follow it, but I will cut the spell if it begins giving commands.
Kynes follows the beacon without touching the charm or taking control from Nhal. Its trail bends east, toward streets crowded with warehouses, countinghouses, and late-night traffic.
Bren
I will watch the doors and the street. If anything comes through here while you trace that signal, it will meet me first.
The violet script suddenly tightens. Far along the traced route, something notices the investigation and turns its attention back through the beacon.
Nhal
It saw us. Not clearly, perhaps, but enough to know I am no longer practicing alone. I am interrupting if it reaches through me.
The charm remains in Nhal’s keeping, its script pointing toward the eastern quarter while a second pulse travels back along the connection. The next choice is Kynes’s.
✓ Quest Accepted
Prevent the beacon from reaching through Nhal
✓ Quest Accepted
Identify the hidden presence behind the beacon