[tab][/tab]It is Trentus of Flambeau himself who steps forward to speak. He is still holding a torch radiating with magic light as bright as the sun.
[tab][/tab]We were all in the same chamber. Metron was imprisoned in the crystal sphere that suppresses magic coming from within, and he was loaded with chains. I was there, Erat Caecus, Karandos, Crinos of Gurnicus. Others. We pressed the ultimatum upon him, offering him mercy and life in prison if he would but divulge the final secrets of the shadows.
[tab][/tab]We were talking about different horrific ways we could execute him and threatened to bring in the English! I suggested we just torture the information out of him, burn off one body part at a time. But Crinos rejected the notion as being against the principles of House Gurnicus. I sneered at him, having known some pretty shady Quaesitors in my day. Erat Caecus mentioned that, since he was already an outcast, any one of us could just kill him at any time without repercussion. No law or mandate protected him. That's when he went into his ranting about how he can never die and daring us to kill him. He does that sometimes.
[tab][/tab]But this time it worked.
[tab][/tab]Karandos could stand no more, and in fiery rage he unleashed a massive blast of, I don't know, pure destructive energy. Not like any fire or lightning I have seen before, a spectacular display of heat and light. And he was literally in a fiery rage. Something went pop in his head and he just lost it. His eyes spewed flame, his hair and beard crackled with lightning, and his voice grew to gigantic timber. Never in my life have I seen a rage so powerful! It was magnificent!
[tab][/tab]We never saw what actually happened when the blast struck the prison sphere. I was told it suppressed magic coming from inside, not outside, so it can be used to keep subjects tame while they are magically interrogated from without.
[tab][/tab]Gurnicus principles 
[tab][/tab]The reason we didn't see is because it was at that instant everything went dark and we were all blind because of it. I was the only one that could muster a spell to permit sight. Crinos tried to spontaneously cast an Intellego Imaginem spell and failed six timed before he succeeded. I am surprised he did not go into twilight. By that time I had created light with a spell of sufficient magnitude to penetrate the darkness. It was a standard spell, fifth magnitude Perdo Ignem, the Well without Light. Only magical light of the fifth magnitude could penetrate it.
[tab][/tab]Whence we were able to see again, both Metron and Karandos had vanished. The crystal sphere was shattered and the chains turned to slag, and there were blast marks all around. Obviously the work of Karandos' spell. But no signs of Metron. No remains, no corpse, nothing. Karandos too had disappeared.
[tab][/tab]And here are now.
(as a side note, the last time Metron appeared in this game was at the start of this leg of the saga, and he was laughing hysterically.