It was locked. Totally locked, with some magical thing to open it. There was a white circle, and a red circle, and a black circle. And the red one was shiny when I stepped in it, and the red one was shiny when Jenare stepped in it, and where in the world was I supposed to find a black mage, argh? Well, I mean, sure, Windurst is full of them, but that doesn’t mean I can tell them about an important, confidential mission!
And then, guess what? I found some guy I knew! An acquaintance! A friend! A black mage! Take that, door!
So we got in there, and it was filled with skeletons and stuff. I had to go to the room with the seal myself, and thankfully, it didn’t have skeletons—nope, it just had Cardians instead.
And Minister Ajido-Marujido. This makes… I don’t know how many times he’d had to save me now. When I told him what I was doing there and that the Star Sibyl collapsed, he ran off again. Said he was going to Full Moon Fountain. I hope he’s careful. Doesn’t he realize there’s a price on his head right now?
…Hey, but. What was he doing there? He asked me what I was, but… was it just coincidence? He must have been worried about the same thing…
Well, anyway, I reported back and all about everything except the Minister, and remembered that aide’s souvenir from Jeuno, and she gave me a portal charm.
Y’know, the key to that door we had to go through, so we didn’t have to get a whole bunch of mages.
…
Why. Couldn’t they have just given it to me earlier. Argh, these people!