Dominic put the biscuits on first thing in the morning, and added more vegetable to the stew, before frying up a bunch of meat slices from the cured hams that were issued as Dagos military rations.
The smell slowly woke the others, and Amie came down from watch to join them for breakfast and the morning planning meeting.
"Do we have contact with Wistover?" Dominic asked.
Amie smiled. "Indeed we do. But not quite in the way that most would expect. You see, we can open portals. So, we can just open a small one and ask someone what is going on."
The two older mages laughed. It was normally an insanely difficult feat of magic to target a portal so precisely, but they could open one directly on top of a targeting beacon, and there was one inside the newly built mage tower, inside the Elder's office.
"We can try the radio first. If we set up the antenna outside from the second floor, we might be able to raise someone." The senior mage suggested instead.
