They stood outside of the courtroom, their faces grave. The door guard seemed to be naturally sour-faced, and didn't seem surprised to see the four mirroring his expression. Reven stopped just as they stepped through the portal and were back in the hall of mosaics and green carpet.
"Seventy-two hours is plenty of time to..."
Aeisha kept going, completely and totally annoyed and ready to leave. The mages soon had to jog to catch up with her, but she was hardly paying attention to her when they came near. At the end of the hall was a wall mosaic that appeared to be all of winter in it's glory, hills covered in downy snow, trees bare but standing tall. She scowled at it then turned expectantly to the mages.
"Well?" she said when no one offered to summon the portal.
"There's got to be some
