Chapter 2: Mirrors?

A shorter entry, I hope.
 
To summarise the past little while: we're in the Tesmeri Protectorate, in my homeland, on a contract to slay a beast that's causing trouble. If I'm remembering correctly, it's my own link to this place that we were called in - they wanted someone who knew the land.
 
Naturally, nothing is going as we expected. The beast is some monstrously large bear with a strange item in its chest that appears to be causing some sort of horrific corruption, and creatures that disappeared in a storm thirty years ago are now showing up once again - all similarly corrupted. We tracked a group of hunters with the aid of one of the councillors - a half-drow cleric named Thea - and I attempted to communicate with the monsters. This didn't go well. There's some sort of screaming; the beast, I assume? It's in pain - or something along those lines. And the land feels wrong.
 
We tried to find its lair, but instead found ways into an alternate dimension. Some sort of mirrorverse. At the very least, we can see into it through our mirrors. Later on, we found out that Tannic Felbane - the arcane councillor of Atrugate - had been murdered (whilst at the same time remaining alive?) by Senra - the druidic councillor, who later killed Thea - with a knife that could also break into this mirrorverse. We didn't get long to ponder that before the beast came after us. We fled to Atrugate.
 
I'm not letting the others have that knife. Druidic is scrawled across its blade, for one. I did, however, test it with Sefris, and we received a private audience with Senra. She seems to believe that what she's doing is in service to the land. And that the gods are wrong. I did not memorise the ramblings of a madwoman. Though I don't want to hurt one of my own order, she seems to be more than a little disturbed. And more importantly to me: my father has gotten caught up in this and is now affected by something. I've yet to find out what, but we saw a vision of him in Atrugate when finding the knife, and just managed to find him when using the knife near the Tower.
 
He's limping, coughing, and seems weak. And he's somehow found a way to tame the beast, to an extent. I'm not going to let the others see how worried I am, but I am worried. If this injury isn't one we can find some way of repairing, I will delight in setting Meteor and my greatest magics on Senra and whoever else is behind this.
 
This is a very scattered journal entry, isn't it. These days have been trying. I hadn't realised how hard it was to remain calm when your home and family were under attack. Still, I'm managing to keep a level head.
 
Anyway. The mirrorverse. It seems that it somehow contains the beasts that disappeared thirty years ago, as I mentioned earlier, but it's more than that. The landscape is different, and the beings are shadowy with strange languages and yellow eyes. But they're actually not as horrific as it seems, as Faraahi found out. It seems that they have duplicates of beings on the real world, with their own thoughts, motives, et cetera. And they apparently follow a half-drow 'hero'. Was this the person my father fought, or was that Senra? How are they linked? I'll need to find that out. The 'denizen', as we're calling them, of the mirrorverse claimed his name was Alferion; an elven guard. We found the true Alferion and upon making contact in our world, they combined into one being - able to see in both worlds. It seems that if someone has a reflection in any mirror, they have a 'denizen' version (but we can't tell if we have them ourselves, as we can't see ourselves, which is also concerning).
 
Logan, Sefris, Siegfried and myself are fine. Faraahi of all people has a duplicate. I very much hope that this doesn't mean there's a second Heart. That's a problem we'll need to fix, too.
 
There's more that needs to be discussed, but I don't have time to keep writing. I just needed to write down something. This place is doing a brilliant job of testing my patience - such is the way of imbalance, I suppose. We'll find a way. I just need to ensure that way is found before the rest of my chosen family is involved.