Duke received the news the way Duke received most things, which was sitting down, with a cup of something warm, in a room filled with milfs, having fun like he always does...
He felt the domain settle over Velmora and he set his cup down with the particular deliberateness of a man who has just received information that requires his full attention.
He extended his perception carefully, measuring what he could reach of it, finding the same absence of edges that everyone else with sufficient sensitivity had found.
Then he found the aura at the centre of it.
He sat with that for a moment.
Then he picked his cup back up.
"It's him," he said, to the empty room. "Stronger again."
He shook his head slowly, but the expression on his face was not disappointment. It was the expression of someone watching something unfold that they had suspected was possible but hadn't been entirely sure they would live to see.
"The Anomaly of Velmora," he said quietly.
He took a sip of his drink.
