Two birds one stone

"Watch out, Arthur. The others are spying on you." Scorn told him. 

Even though all attention was focused on the dead messenger and the omnimancer, some hope was placed in his runes. Hope or doubt.

While Seisyll had told Arthur what to say about the magical factions they came from, their abilities and names were unknown in the camp. With all the mages in the kingdom living mainly in the capital, not everyone knew each other, but the names had plenty of opportunities to go down in history along with the breakthroughs in the field of magic.

Arthur took advantage of a break during mealtime to get closer to Lara. She was his main point of contact with the others and seemed important in the camp. He had never seen her fight, but he knew she would have abilities beyond an ordinary mage's.

"Tell me, Lara. If you extract green coal from the mines and use it as currency, what do you bargain to have access to it?"