Have the scryings done from Absalom; you might need what magic you have in the Vault.

I'll authorize that expense.

You're doing an awful lot for us on the strength of our IOU, Zey, and I want to double-check that you've priced in the risk of default.

Ileosa is going to look around the room to check for sure that she's not the only one reeling from that.

She is not.

We're not all so Abadaran as that, we assure you.

"Kroft, green bean, I'm sure the Pathfinder knows his business better than we do.

Maybe butt out of it, okay?"

Your Queen is quite correct.

I've been selling off your debt near as quick as I've bought it; it's impossible at this point for me not to turn a profit.

I'll tell you in an hour what the wizards turn up.

A permanent telepathic bond seems so convenient.

She's wanted one since before she even saw how Zey uses his - but they're so expensive for how fragile they are.

Maybe there's a magic item that does the same thing, so Arkona can't hire someone to come along and dispel it like he's always doing to her alarms?

...Though perhaps that's not exactly the threat model, anymore.

Abadar said there were something like fifty shadow attacks last night.

Can your man in Absalom tell us last night's other targets, asides from Korvosa and Westcrown?

If he can, I'll let you know.

I think this is actually impossible.

We have until night falls and the horror begins again to come to a sufficiently complete understanding of the problem, to find a solution that works at sufficient scale, and implement it across the entire colony?

I just don't think this is possible.

...It certainly looks harder than anything I've ever done.

Maybe there's a silver bolt that we'll find with thinking, maybe there isn't. 

But we've done impossible things before. 

Respectfully, Watch Sergeant, let's focus on the attainable.

Instead of stretching ourselves thin, let's first secure this Vault against mishap and disaster, and build our strength that one day we might reclaim our homes.

At this moment your entire food supply is one remarkable wizard using what I presume to be most or all of his seventh-circle spells.

What will you eat when he leaves, I wonder?

We have other wizards. 

Where?

Right here! I'm speaking to one!

I. Can. Not. Cast. That. Spell.

Learn it, then!

???

You must admit that he has a point.

Delmore - 

Do not antagonize me, Necromancer.