23. Failure

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Well, that could've gone better, she thought to herself as she was swung around by her ankle by a particularly angry wood spirit.

Sometimes she regretted her job as an interspecies diplomat, and strangely, today wasn't one of those times. The swirling through the air was oddly refreshing this early into the day.

When the wood spirit had finally calmed down enough to put her solidly on her feet again, her actual job could begin at last.

The creature wasn't really inclined to help out the mages when one crashed through their walls just moments ago, though.

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