"With him gone, I can take his place. I am better suited for this. I require no chaperone, or magically sealed cases."

"Truthfully, you don't want to be. For anyone who challenges the higher ups is put to death, and masked in secrecy. This is how peace is kept among us. This is what the Arcane is built upon."

About one hundred miles south of Legato,

...Gamon, Cassius, and their new acquaintance, the angry mail carrier griffin, relaxed in a woodland area, surrounded by ...