The second batch of Mages works more or less like the first. However, these are younger and don't know about me. As such, my wind doesn't change a thing.
They do feel someone is taking care of them, but it's not enough to calm down and hope. They're desperate and lost, feeling the injustice of this act on their shoulders.
I continue like this, and we're spared from individual trials. Arabeus makes a group of Mages, sometimes tied to each other with a single long chain, walk in. He lists crimes, declares them guilty, and they are brought to the stake.
It's at the last group of nine that things get worse.
First of all, I was expecting nine. But who get out of the Temple are eight children, aged from five to twelve. Five girls and three boys.
