Wards at War in the Library

A vast enchanted guild library with towering shelves glowing with runes and magical light.

Motes of golden dust float through beams of light. Kess Vordain, tall and angular

in leather armor, shelves books efficiently. She has the bearing of someone used to danger.

A storage room door appears, covered in seventeen different colored magical ward symbols:

blue, red, purple, green, gold,

silver, emerald. They glow and hum. The wards begin to argue.

Their lights pulse out of sync, flashing in chaotic patterns. Magical energy crackles

between them. Frost spreads across the floor in crystalline patterns. Kess's breath becomes