At first the Mayor doesn't respond, as though she could not hear Synovia over the sudden rush of blood to her gut which now feels heavy as great stones that litter the Sandpoint region. A moment passes in this heaviness, the Mayor staring with a sharp intensity at Synovia, Her hand shake, even the one pinching the bridge or her nose. "Syn...Nualia is dead," she begins, "Burned in the cathedral with her father...If Tsuto has... found some way of resurrecting ashes then a great darkness is indeed upon us..." She slowly removes the hand from her face and places both palms deliberately on her desk, the thought of food so abandoned as to not even register as she knocks, the fork to the floor. "I...need to get in contact with Hemlock...I..." She looks up with a slight desperation. "Synovia, what has happened to this town?"