True Blindness and The Essence of the First Stage

Crysta's hunch turned out correct… and the delta cursed as she felt the temperature change. It wasn't enough that she was finding difficulty in tracking down her item, let alone moving about, now she felt the scents about her stir and get impossible to distinguish.

This was just the beginning, however… 

A powerful updraft of wind shook the trees and raised dust from the forest floor of the man-made forest that was the playing field of the first stage in the Royal Games. The audience could only watch as the trees strained in protest against the strange force of nature that was the wind.

One of the active cameras kept an eye on a grey wolf leaning against the trunk of a young oak and staying close to the ground hoping to outlive the sudden change in weather while another showed a royal casually walking through the woods in search of an item.