With tomes in our hands, I've no doubt we could drive those dark forces from this place with ease. [She waves her hand, a little dismissively.] We have fathomed the unfathomable before and just as well brought it to its knees. If we were unhindered, whatever dark force lies on the other side of all this would be dust against us.

[She hums, and there's the slightest of smiles forming on her face.]

We know these powers well, do we not? You and I best of, perhaps, almost anyone from our army. [The summoner and the slayer—what a pair.] To know them is the first step to guard ourselves and the others against them.