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Serendipity
Summervale
Windfall Village
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"If I had a silver coin for every time an old colleague asked me to examine a Connlaothan, I'd have two silvers..." grumbled the Halfling as she continued to put more things into her backpack. "Not a lot, but strange it happened twice..."
Tathfheithleann's enchanted backpack thankfully could hold up to an entire alchemy field lab being stuffed into it. The dimensional space within its sturdy canvas held far more volume than a backpack fit for a child would allow. In it went boxes and boxes of equipment, potions, ingredients... Anything that the little mage thought she might need for this first visit. The person on the other end of her Sending Stone had frustratingly few answers for her.
The Halfling mage approached her teleportation circle, shouldered her bag, and threw her cloak over one shoulder. One should always account for the weather, after all. The circle set itself aglow with a soft blue light as it awaited her instructions.
"Arca," she commanded.
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Serendipity
Arca
Undisclosed Apartment
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The promise of a mage from Summervale arriving in Arca "within the hour" was as if a madman promised the world over. Or so it would have sounded. The art of magecraft and its commonality in Serendipity opened the door for many trades, utilities, and luxuries alike. Teleportation circles were expensive in ingredients and difficult to maintain on a large scale, making them next to impossible for infrastructure or public mass transit... But if one could afford the space and the circle, such travel made life a far easier and safer experience. And Tathfheithleann had both.
She reappeared with a flash of light and the crackling of static in a circle exactly identical to the one in her workshop. This, too, was a shop of her own, though smaller and used primarily for storage.
"Welcome back," called a disembodied voice, one that mimicked the Halfling's own.
"Can't talk, nobles are waiting on me," Tathfheithleann said to the empty air. "Keep the sigils warm, I'm not staying long."
"As you wish," the voice replied.
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Serendipity
Arca
The Halli Family Estate
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Kiara and Grav, what conversation they were having, would be politely interrupted by a maid to announce the arrival of the alchemist. Behind Lord Hallis walked someone about the height of a Human child, but even at a glance it was clear that this one had the proportions of a fully grown person, just scaled down to a four-foot height. Not a Human at all; but a Halfling from far-flung Summervale. From dress to mantle, her clothing was decorated with sigils and circles of some kind, and comically attached to her back was a rather simple canvas backpack. Even from her diminutive height, the Halfling scanned over the room and those in it with soft purple eyes.
"Tathfheithleann of Summervale," was the name she was introduced by.