Felis was genuinely surprised this time: "Prutt? What can he do?"
"You realize you're talking about a Seventh Circle Mage, right?" Russell asked with interest. "You never used to disdain authority like this."
"Authority my ass!" Felis said firmly, "He's just a fool!
I can't see how he could get any benefits from this!
Kamente Tower has a million reasons not to get dragged down by him and could just kick him out... huh?
Don't tell me, you suspect this has nothing to do with the Tower Master?"
"When you had trouble... in the Tower of Dark Enigma, even the biggest fool wouldn't believe Rolando's wife would want to hurt you," Russell shook his head. "This was done so crudely, and Prutt's people showed up too brazenly.
Of course, back then I thought, maybe Kamente Tower had some other purpose... after all, someone like Prutt, if you lose him, you lose him.
