In answer to the pious inquiry of Kel Bormol, Overseer of Thoth, Uriel Basileon, most humble archon, offers this reply.
Your assistant, the Second Overseer, has not dared show himself since of his cowardly retreat before the Sortian onslaught. He cowers within the Tower of Scrutiny, refusing entry to all. Should conditions improve, and should the Sortian dragons depart, I shall smoke him out of his lair, and deliver him to you for punishment. I should warn you, furthermore, that my agents have noticed a messenger from Hithra Paleologos obtaining entrance to the Tower of Scrutiny. I know not what this portends, but it cannot be good. Be warned.