Ranara and her little daughter Azabel move to Urtho's Tower when the latter can say six words ("up", "mama", "milk", "no", "now", and "please") and hasn't started to walk yet. Ranara sets up to teach little children to read, ones who don't have evident Gifts yet - Ranara herself has Mindspeech, is all, with about a classroom's worth of range. Azabel sits in on classes, worn on her mother's back or later plopped in a corner with toys or, when she's only four, plopped in a corner with a book, younger than the other kids in the class. When Azabel has in fact sat through her mother's curriculum she is turned somewhat loose, to walk very carefully up and down and around the Tower, exploring.
Aza focuses on her shield. Peers at the building for any windows or other weak spots that might want shoring up.
Before she finds any, the hiss of steam slows to a whisper, then nothing.
Ma'ar sags to his knees beside the shielded doorway. "Boiler fire's out. Should - be all right now..."
Aza looks at the senior student. "The fire's out. Is that the only danger in there?"
Ma'ar, after a few moments, sits back against the doorway and smiles tiredly at her. "Thanks for coming. And helping."
Ma'ar falls silent, while the Healers and now some arriving mage-teachers bustle around them.
"....Looks like it's - all under control?" he says eventually, faintly. "We could go somewhere else."
"I'm sort of expecting... someone... to want a statement? I don't know if that's going to actually happen..."
"Oh, right, I - guess that should happen..." Ma'ar looks incredibly exhausted at the prospect.
She nods. Shifts position a little on the ground, scoots to a softer part of the grass. Flops backward.
Ma'ar grabs the doorframe to haul himself up, and gives a curt two-sentence summary of how he heard the initial steam explosion and rushed over. Then glances at Azabel.
"I Gated over - I can't run and I was way up in the Tower - and I'm okay at Mindspeaking people who don't have the Gift, so I got the story from one of the people inside, determined it was safe to open the door, did that, dragged out somebody who couldn't move by magic, and then summoned Healers and shielded the door while Ma'ar put out the fire."
:I was but there was a sudden emergency and Ma'ar called me over to help and now I am very tired and have already made my excuses to Lionwind and I want to go flop somewhere that is not this lawn:
:Wow! I'll be right over! What sort of emergency? Were you a hero? Is it a good story? Can you tell me?:
:It is not an especially good story but maybe it would shape up into one with some work. I think we were helpful: