The Sage Alden Spellweaver

Boy oh boy what a fuckin day. So this morning the prince and Gavreal, Mr. alabaster, came to Ellie's to have us give them an update on what we found the past couple days. We told him all about the protesters and shit and he didn't seem too surprised. Seems like things in the nation are really heading towards the shitter. Folks literally being kidnapped right off the street in broad daylight. We went over to the ministry to talk to the magister about that spellweaver feller and instead she interrogated us about the riot. She's such a charmin little thing I tell ya. Really doin a number on me. Anyway after we had a little chat she let us go. No wrongdoing on our part, but we already knew that. She seemed real annoyed around the end though, must have been something Timekeeper said. He always did have a big mouth. He did manage to get that Sage's address though. We headed over there and, I gotta say, I regret some things I did. Damn near lost my life today. We knock all gentle like and the door is clearly open. I peek inside and see a fucking body laying on the floor. We go in and sure enough it seems to be the mage. I hear some chittering and shit coming from upstairs. The bugbear and I go check it out and I swear to fuck I almost shat myself. Hoge fucking swarm of somethings come right at us! I toss a sleep spell its way and the damn thing just purrs with pleasure! I fuckin book it out the door and the swarm blasts right past the bugbear and hops out the window at me! Swear to Celeste it was like I had a homing beacon on me. Foust tried to toss some fire my way but I didn't want none of that. I managed to blast it off me and took a run for it but it was sticking to me like flies on shit. The gang and I did our best to keep it away from us but it just kept coming. Fucking druid turned into a giant frog and tried to swat at the swarm and it didn't help at all. Damn thing even had the audacity to split into two swarms after eating some of that frog's energy! Eventually we whittled it down and killed them all but damn if I don't ever want to do that again. Afterward we went back to the house to see where the fuck the things came from. We found a book with their description but something seemed real illegal about that book so I held on to it. We confirmed that the body was the sage, and soon after found a fuckin mass grave in his basement. Dirty fuck even had some poor kid in there! I had to walk her back to the ministry and left the rest of the gang there at the sage's house. The ministry was closed but I sent some officers to the house to secure the scene while I took the poor kid to Ellie's. She said she was from the slums and we just couldn't make it back their before nightfall, so I figured Ellie's was a safe enough spot. Glad I did too, cuz she sure took a shining to Ellie. Then again who doesn't though. She told us a little more about this "mom" of hers, but turns out that's a damned slumlord. Poor girl is an orphan. Kid even saw the bodies in the basement but didn't seem too pressed. Guess she's had a hard damned life. I don't think we should take her back to the slums to be honest. Just don't feel right to send her back to that place. I'll have to talk to Ellie in the morning and ask if she can adopt the child or something. We gotta be able to help her somehow. Anyway I need to talk to the prince and the magister about this Alden prick. The magister sure didn't seem to want to help us but I'll be damned if she was hiding this from us. I just hope she didn't know, would change things between us.