Lady Xephos
Days on the road and no sign of being anywhere near the destination. The only thing she knew for sure was that they were heading north. Every once in a while 'Guide', as she had begun to call the light leading her around, would drift close enough that Saha could try and reach for it. She had tried moving slowly to avoid being detected, snapping quickly before Guide could react, and more than once she tried to hold it in place with an Atollo spell. She even tried using Atollo to fling a basket down on Guide to catch it but it passed right through. At least she had determined that Guide had no mass. Either Guide existed as pure energy or it was a manifestation of the ether. the fact that others could see Guide as well meant that it wasn't an illusion of the mind. Guide showed signs of intelligence that were extremely uncommon even in the realm of magic but she didn't have enough evidence to form a theory just yet. So far it didn't answer questions about it's origin nor did it reveal any useful information about their destination but it clearly showed signs of sentience. It seemingly made it's own decisions and appeared to be aware of itself and it's surroundings, although there was no evidence to suggest whether or not Guide was a messenger or some form of proxy. Regardless She followed onward to whatever lay ahead.
After several more days of traveling she had made it to the mountains. The path she took was surprisingly safe considering she had ridden side-saddle on horseback the entire way up. Guide seemed to know it's way around very intimately, whoever sent it had probably spent a great deal of time in these mountains. She was met with others at the crest of her path, by their look she could tell that most of them were experienced individuals and touched by Deep Magic. The others appeared to be adept fighters of various kinds and one even perhaps a mage? This was an interesting fact, what kind of situation called for legendary individuals to gather in one place? Either an egotistical maniac thought himself strong enough to kill all of them to make a name for himself, or something had summoned them all to respond to a great threat. Just as she thought this she could see over the crest of the mountain and see the smoke billowing from the village below. Her horse seemed frightened so she hopped off and let the gentle beast run to somewhere safe.
As the others started to rush to the aid of the village on foot Saha devised her own way to travel. Reaching quickly into her satchel she retrieved a vial of what she had dubbed 'Essence of Frozen Fire', she spread the essence on the snow in front of her using Atollo to spread it evenly into a disk. In seconds it solidified and Saha quickly hopped onto it causing her to start sliding down the slope at increasing speed. She couldn't help but enjoy the ride exclaiming,
"Hahahaha! Fear not, help is on the wayyyyyyy!" The glee in her voice was clearly genuine. As her speed increased from the downward momentum she surpassed everyone and sped towards the burning village filled with strangely disembodied shadows. There was no doubt in Saha's mind that this was what Guide had been leading her to.