"What exactly happens if you can't contain it?" Saguna asked, though he wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer.
"Veil burn in an area of corrupted magical flow?" Professor Nyala considered the question seriously, her voice growing distant as she struggled to focus. "Best case scenario, I lose the ability to use Academy magic permanently. Worst case... the chaotic energy finds a way to discharge itself through whatever means available."
"Meaning?" Osa pressed.
"Meaning it could tear open a temporary breach in the Veil, allowing shadow entities direct access to wherever I happen to be standing at the time."
The implications of that hit all three of them simultaneously. They'd brought a potential walking catastrophe into a peaceful fishing village.
"We should leave," Saguna said immediately. "Find somewhere isolated—"
