Someone had been going around annihilating entire villages as of recently. Actually? It was only one village, a small and nearly insignificant one at that, but whenever anyone could take out some village with barely any time being taken up, the magic council tended to get worried about it. So why not send one of their Rising Stars to investigate it and apprehend whoever had done it?! Politically the move was very smart, people realized by the council for good or bad reasons, were often decent matches for each other, and could easily face off with neither dying, or only the evil side of things going down. However Jiyu had not been thinking about all those sorts of things when she accepted being a rising star! The only thing on the young mages head? Had been how it would make her mother proud. "The Village Used To Be Over Here." she was being led by a little boy and his family, they lived in the village that was gone, but had not been within the village when this attack happened. That? Had to be depressing, one second everything was normal and the next second, everything you ever knew was gone! Jiyu had lost her mother young, so she understood it to an extent, but at least this family still had each other, and the wind mage prayed they would for some time. If she let them walk much further with her, and they possibly were there when she faced whoever had attacked the village? "You guys could go back to the other village, I'll let you know if I find anything~ The landmark is the clock tower, right?" they nodded once more, confirming that the clock tower was all that remained.
If she'd allowed those villagers to come with her? They'd be dead, but she really shouldn't be thinking about them, nor the way the two children at looked at her like she was the bravest thing in the world! "I guess this whole thing really isn't that bad." she likely wouldn't even meet the culprit, and just doing something like looking around, boosted people's spirits! So the wind mage dropped the ideal that she had received the short end of the stick with this request, and realized she received a bonus from this, more admiration from people, just for trying!
"So this clock tower is the only thing? Hmm, could have been used in the attack, an area of affect or such than." her hands touched the clock tower, before she looked around, to see something about the landscape didn't look quiet right. The land the village once took up? Had different grass and plants than from the rest of the area, like someone had turned back time.
If she'd allowed those villagers to come with her? They'd be dead, but she really shouldn't be thinking about them, nor the way the two children at looked at her like she was the bravest thing in the world! "I guess this whole thing really isn't that bad." she likely wouldn't even meet the culprit, and just doing something like looking around, boosted people's spirits! So the wind mage dropped the ideal that she had received the short end of the stick with this request, and realized she received a bonus from this, more admiration from people, just for trying!
"So this clock tower is the only thing? Hmm, could have been used in the attack, an area of affect or such than." her hands touched the clock tower, before she looked around, to see something about the landscape didn't look quiet right. The land the village once took up? Had different grass and plants than from the rest of the area, like someone had turned back time.