"Right… then, I'll be heading there,"
"What about me… do I stay put inside your book?" Gale asked.
"No," Ludwig shook his head, "I need you to meet up with Van Dijk. Can you manage?"
"Not with this body…"
"I'll handle that," Kaiser said, "I can cast polymorph on him, it will be ugly, but better than this… sight," Kaiser said.
"Find Van Dijk and make him move," Ludwig said. "I don't care what excuse you use. Lie if you have to. Tell him monsters are coming, tell him Solania burns, tell him his sister dies if he stays idle. Pick whichever version gets him moving fastest."
Van Dijk was dangerous, arrogant, and a problem in several ways, but he was powerful enough to matter. If Ludwig could not be everywhere, he needed monsters pointed at bigger monsters.
"It'll be a hard thing to prove," Gale said.
"That's the thing with knowing only portion of the future, but you have to inform him, he'll at least come up with countermeasures if not act directly."
"I shall." Gale nodded.
