[center][color=teal][h2]Gwyneira Elfreda[/h2][/color][/center]

This rain was way too sudden and unusually salty.  It was the sort of saltiness that Gwyn connected with sea water, but the city was definitely landlocked and in the middle of meadows.  If the city was closer to the ocean, Gwyn would have been on the look-out for falling fish as she'd read about happening in some areas.  Instead, Gwyn kept an eye for anything new coming from the rain as well as keeping as much an eye on Cicero as possible and trying to figure out who'd caused the sudden rainstorm. Something like this would require a massive energy expenditure on the caster's part.  The most likely person was Cicero's dark stranger, especially with the magical control he'd already shown. Even if it was nothing she currently knew about, it showed a great amount of magical prowess.  His motives were completely unknown though.  Another possibility was Joshua Frostmay seeking revenge on Cicero and the arena.  Ice was definitely connected with water after all.  Yet, Frostmay hadn't done anything big like this during his fight.  However, something like this would have been an automatic red-flag that there was something screwy going on, so she couldn't discount the possibility that he could do something like this if he wanted to.  A third possibility was the dwarf Cicero was currently fighting, Rhakkar. There were probably ways he could exploit a downpour like this against an armored opponent with a more limited range of view and wouldn't be the first fighter Cicero had come across that cheated magically. However, he was not exhausted enough though to have cast a spell of this magnitude and the runes on his axe did not show signs of use.  Who else could have caused this storm. 

She looked back at the dazed king.  Being dazed could mean that the king himself had cast this storm and was now showing his fatigue.  Why would he cause a storm though?  It sounded like he wanted to be here, watching the fight.  Could his dazed state actually have been induced by the rain?  She frowned up at the sky.  He was higher up and so theoretically, a drugged type of rain would affect him sooner than anyone down below.  She would definitely need some protection from the rain in that case, but better than was available now for her from the crowd.  She first tested if she could freeze the rain water.  If she could, she would freeze the rain water in a canopy over herself that would guard against the rain while still allow her to exit if the rain was truly drugged and she needed to get Cicero out of here. If the water was freezable, it would take less energy from her and the ice structure could be left standing by itself when well-built, making it pretty cost-effective energy wise even if the ice had to be re-frozen after a time.

If not, she'd might just to find a place under one of the benches where she could still see the fight and keep from getting more wet but see little else.  Nothing else she had memorized would be useful for making a rain-proof construct.  Hard-light constructs were still harder for her to use and took up way more energy than she could afford at the moment.

After she was out of the immediate downpour, Gwyn would wrack her brains for a means to test what the water had in it and its cumulative effect on a person.