Corn was simply stunned. So many things he wanted to say, so few possibilities to say them. A loooong string of revelations. The details were few but the revelations were stunning.
"I ... am sorry for everyone's loss." was all he managed to say. "These are fresh wounds, I suppose. "
Campanela was once the Hierarch? And he stepped down? San Francisco didn't really like them? They also didn't like San Francisco? Archmages dealing with the Seers? Campanela knew an Archmage and where he used to live? Met only three of them as if that was a small number? How many there were in that cabal?
That house is still there? Campanela knew an archmage? No wonder these guys were not considering mastery to be anything special.
"I would assume that the house of the Archmage is still off limits, isn't it Daduche? Especially for a time-travelling cabal, we can't be sure when he or they will return. While I doubt the archmage would have forgot something he didn't want others to find I think the best approach at this point is to stay away from this place until, and if, we know more. Be it a month or a decade.
There are more things I would like to know about our relations with San Francisco and a few things you mentioned in that story, but that can wait. What are the next steps for the Order, Daduche Campanela? How do we rebuild? "
Campanela's description of the events in the empty, ransacked Athenaum is several orders of magnitude better than reading bits and pieces in the wiki and I can say that it is the most evocative post I've read in this site in the 2 1/2 months I am here.