Voices of Hurting (part 6)

Further inside the establishment beyond the wall was Verbasi who looked up in the sky, half-hidden by the tall stone barricade, showing the white lights of Yphemu’s magic blink on and off amidst the dark blue of the night. He heard the wisp of "fire brim" that Yphemu summoned. He didn’t need to give her his crystal, because he had to clear the debris and ruin from the residential area.

She knew he didn’t need to be there more for his purpose at the current rather than the help he could provide with his magic and shard, but his belief that his students with him could substitute while he checked this place was more enough than anything. At least, the emotions of relief had not settled, in him and the unsettling anxiety and anger that he could sense in the magic Yphemu has been throwing around.