Sore

Merek will eventually find Uta's barrel-shaped traveler's wagon.

She's parked it as close to the Tower of Babel as one can possibly get within reasonable safety parameters; it's not an obvious place, and while Uta had managed to croak some general directions over chimlinks before going completely silent, Merek probably had to put in some extra work to find the rest of the way.

The barrel is parked, and the larger-than-average Grunty is quietly chewing at a short distance from it; the door on the back is unlocked, as per Japanese custom, so Merek will be able to just walk in.

If he does so, he will find Uta curled up in bed, wearing a very modest nightie with a slime pattern.

She looks exhausted and strained.

    Merek will eventually find Uta, while he takes the time to walk that way and along to where she was at. The man wears that dark attire that he often does, and will nod a little bit when he comes upon the woman, "Uta," he offers.

Uta will stir in bed. "mmmhhh-" She will barely hint at a hoarse sound, and stop abruptly with a grimace.

Those vocal cords don't look good.

She raises one hand, and with an arcged index finger (as arched as the rest of her hand -- looks like her fingers are suffering too), she points at a drawing on her desk.

On the desk, there's a sheet of paper with a sketch of a man with glasses: https://imgur.com/a/Hzh9ted .

    Merek looks to the paper, while he takes the time to pick it up, then he takes a look along to Uta, "Who's that?" the man asks, while he will think about it. "What did you do?" he asks. There's a moment where he will check the place and make sure that all looks safe, and nods.

Uta just gives a weak shrug through slitted eye at the question about who that man is. She tries to say something, she moves her mouth, but every attempt results in her facial muscles twisting into a worse expression of pain.

She finally sighs, and with a shake of her head and a pained expression, she pulls out a second sheet of paper, which she'll hand to Merek.

In it, Uta wrote of a vision she had, get flashes of a man wearing glasses, with red light tugging on his body, trying to pull him away. Firing upon something out of sight. The entire room itself looks highly technological, in a magical way that goes beyond what you've seen in any Root Towns - right before the red lines upon his body suddenly yank the man through a portal, and the vision disappears.

    Merek will nod a little bit along to Uta, "Alright, well... I don't know a lot about all that, I will look into it, thank you. If you need to be healed, Prophylaxis might be able to assist if you can't use your own magic."

Uta nods, and with a wheezy sound, turns to the other side.