Book excerpt: With the sentient forests of Jade-Realm having named Brianna as their Arch-Druid, the other mystical nations are edgy over her exponentially growing power and influence. Brianna goes to meet with their council to assuage their fears, but her easily offended subordinates end up taking the council hostage... and A select group of Jade-Realm mages meet with Brianna, who is now the Arch-Druid of a vast stretch of Jade's sentient forests. They believe her "magitech" skills, creating tech-based forms from magical resources, will be the key to defending Jade from future Umbral invasions. But many on Jade are downright unfriendly to anything tech-related...and Peebri catches one of them is spying!