Surprise, Miss Enchanter!

Cecelia and I had met up and successfully gone and acquired the book she needed and some additional ingredients for her enchantment. Our morning tasks seemed to be going smoothly until we took a shortcut through an alley.

I had been tracking the roughly two dozen men who appeared as red dots on my minimap. When I had picked up Cecelia from the smithy this morning, only two dots had been nearby. However, while we were shopping, another twenty or so red dots had appeared on the surrounding rooftops. While I had detected them, Cecelia had seemingly yet to notice their presence. She was a competent fighter but lacked the necessary scouting abilities to detect the enemies. In hushed tones, I had informed her of the enemies near us before we left the store.