Slice of Night

Lyre just stares for a bit, before slowly crossing his arms and looking towards Quiet.

"I'm not sure I like your tone. You should have known that a magician such as me would put on a somewhat large show." Stagewing says, crossing his hooves.

Heartfelt stares at the scene in the room for a moment, before breaking the silence with "Well...that's not a good sign." She trots cautiously over to Swift to make sure he's still breathing and such.

"Put me in a sort of trance, got surprised when I resisted and transitioned us both into my mind, which turns out to look like a giant library, started looking through my mind for info, which caused me pain, and when I fought back and got her to stop by somehow knocking out her consciousness she flew into a rage, not unlike mine at the time, and tried to literally fry my mind." Lyre states, starting to tap his foot while staring at Quiet. "I think an explanation would be nice, don't you?"

The mayor huffs indignantly. "A large show is one thing, but you almost incited a public panic! Tricks are one thing, but endangering my constituents is something I cannot allow."
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Heartfelt sees that Swift is alright, not a bruise on him
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Quiet visibly pales, and he stammers out, "I... I-I can't believe this happened. She was such a promising recruit. You were her first assignment, Lyre." He turns to Heartfelt, worry visible on his face. "I-is Swift okay?"

Heartfelt nods slightly. "He seems okay, just knocked out." She turns to Quiet Compassion, and after a pause adds, "I...uh...guess you've got a lot of work ahead...with her missing and Swift KO'd...would an extra pair of hooves be able to help out?", the offer slipping out before she remembers the multitude of other tasks that she has already acquired in this one evening. It's not even deep night yet!

Cloudcast also realizes how busy Heartfelt is (though not including things she doesn't know about) and says, "Which o' us exactly are ya volunteerin' Stitches? Cause ah can't imagine yah've got the time."

Heartfelt smiles grimly, and says, "I am, actually, volunteering myself. There's always time to help your friends."

Cloudcast raises an eyebrow and asks dubiously, "Between raisin' tha shinny new filly ya adopted, yer job, an' all the other stuff ya do on a regular basis?"

"Don't worry, everypony will be keeping an eye out for her when the newspaper runs an article about all this," replies Smoke Screen...

"Good to know you assigned a rookie to me..." He mumbled to himself, before sighing and uncrossing his arms, growing a softer expression. "Look, I don't know what happened... But I don't think this was normal. Do you know what might have caused it?"