Originally Posted by Fira

Good. Yeah. It seemed Emily agreed on checking everything and she did not snap or glare at him or something. Maybe she had forgotten about his behaviour. Eh...no. He doubted she would forget it. Apparently with everything being a mess, it was not her priority to make him pay for his bad behaviour right now. She would be on it when there was a proper time with everything being in order again. Yeah, she would.

Josh silently nodded at everyone's words as his eyes kept staring at the bites and clawing. Could this creature, whatever it was or they were, repel or block magic somehow? Or was the magic blocked to get the creature in? On what purpose though? No employee was harmed everyone having been kept out. It was about the building.

"Tell me if i am being paranoid..." he began when he finally snapped out of his thoughts and considered Legend's suggestion of restoring the magic wards. It, indeed, was a good point to start since they couldn't afford losing any more evidence than this as it was already bad enough. Yet... "...because i have my doubts but we don't know what made the magic vanish, do we? What if the effect still lingers about? Then our magic wouldn't work at all but worse...what if it triggers our magic to cause some kind of unexpected reaction?"

He didn't fully trust magic.

Yeah...now that he voiced the idea out, it sounded to him like pure paranoia. He looked after Simon and Lab Lady for a bit as he left before returning his gaze at Emily and Legend.

Originally Posted by Hera

She hadn't expected Bennett to stick around, not when it'd mean leaving him with Chosen. No she hadn't forgotten their interactions prior to the Aurors departure for fieldwork... but it still amused her today.

"Keep me posted, I'd like a status report at your earliest convenience." She didn't need to spell these things out anymore. He'd know to cover everything. Bennett was a good egg like that.



Emily was amused. Amused at Elinor's concerns, though they weren't entirely necessary. "Level one and two are clear as far as detection goes... so I don't think we ought to worry too much, but by all means, keep your wits about you," she rattled off to those that were present.

It didn't surprise her the woman wanted to see her lab, it was only fitting, and the sooner she was back in a work-conducive environment, the better. There was little point in waiting and wasting time... there was work to be done, now more than ever. "I'll be with you shortly," she added as Elinor took her leave.



If ever she expected to hear an original thought, one that either made sense or didn't, it would come from Carter - and the man didn't disappoint. "I think perhaps you are a little paranoid," she agreed with a nod of her head, taking a few paces about the room as she made a few more observations. "I think whatever this is, it's benign.. after all, we experienced the magic malfunctions prior to the lockout and there were no ramifications to restoring or using magic then." So in theory, this was simply an effect greater than what they had first witnessed. "My guess is, whatever it was before, wasn't resolved before the break as we'd thought... and in that time, well, with nobody to intervene, it shut things down." Like the lifts before hand, the ones she had avoided like the plague simply because she didn't fancy getting herself caught in one.

"On the off chance it does trigger something unexpected, I think we ought to consider ourselves lucky, because that might give us a clue as to what it is and how to fix it."

And on that note, she really needed to keep moving.

"Can I count on you two to take care of this?" she asked, peering between Carter and Chosen.