232 Meeting (2/3)

General Marble put on a smile and turned to a green robed man standing next to him. "Lance!" Marble bellowed, momentarily drawing the gazes of everyone in the room. "It is good to see you." The two exchanged an awkward hug with Marble wrapping a hairy arm around the entire mage while the mage feebly tried to do the same, caught off guard by both the actions and the smell of alcohol on the man's breath. "Well, good to see you for the second time today. How is the student you and your other mage friend abducted from us?"

"Asleep," Lance replied, trying not to dry heave. "Like everyone else, he couldn't take the strain of the spell and passed out. We're waiting for him to wake up in my office but in the meantime…" he gestured to everyone, who quickly averted their gaze away from the mage. "The mages were summoned here. Classes for Doevm begin in the morning, so I can only tell how he'll do then."