Simon's end of the investigation into the Sudden Forest has not been going well. Questions meet dead ends, evidence no longer exists, and now, he's got strange mages assaulting guards with insects just so they can get in and contaminate the...crime scene? Probable crime scene. Possible crime scene. Nobody even knows.
He starts to call out to the mage to stop him from trespassing any further, but stops, after a second thought (and a reluctant admission to himself that he doesn't want to risk being the subject of another apian attack.) They're already on the lookout for elven magic of some kind. The guy with the bees doesn't look Dalish, but he doesn't necessarily have to be. The fact that he can make the bees do his bidding implies some command of nature magic beyond what Simon's seen from most other Circle mages he knows.
Perhaps this is a lead into the case, after all. It's certainly more promising than anything else he's found so far. Quietly--or as quietly as anyone Simon's size can manage--he follows the elf into the woods, watching carefully to see what he might do.
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He starts to call out to the mage to stop him from trespassing any further, but stops, after a second thought (and a reluctant admission to himself that he doesn't want to risk being the subject of another apian attack.) They're already on the lookout for elven magic of some kind. The guy with the bees doesn't look Dalish, but he doesn't necessarily have to be. The fact that he can make the bees do his bidding implies some command of nature magic beyond what Simon's seen from most other Circle mages he knows.
Perhaps this is a lead into the case, after all. It's certainly more promising than anything else he's found so far. Quietly--or as quietly as anyone Simon's size can manage--he follows the elf into the woods, watching carefully to see what he might do.