Silgryn and Valtrois returned to the Meredil Ruins with a large supply of ancient mana, providing the essential ingredient needed to produce mana wine.
The two elven houses north of the Shal'Aran temple were still reasonably intact. Tel'arn converted them into a winery and installed all the winemaking equipment there.
Once the makeshift winery was complete, Tel'arn handed it over to Lady Marga, the former owner of the Twilight Winery.
The mature Nightborne woman quickly got production running again, assigning the workers from her old winery to their respective stages of the process ahead of time.
The new winery lacked the excellent facilities of the old one, including two specialized rooms for aging and storage, so Malg simply cut out much of the winemaking process.
She planned to skip brewing altogether and make beverages infused with refined ancient mana instead.
Without an aging room, fermenting the fruit juice would take far too long.
Everyone was running short on mana, and Grand Archmage Elisande had no energy to spare on accelerating fermentation.
Adapting to their circumstances, Lady Marga decisively ordered production to begin at once.
Batches of berries gathered in the wild were carried into the Processing Room, while the starlight roses in Tel'arn's little garden were harvested again and again. Gradually, refreshing rose fragrance and rich fruity aromas spread throughout the ruins.
"Teacher Thalyssra, the Grand Archmage asked me to pass on a message." Valtrois found Thalyssra in the clearing outside the temple, helping the workers pick flowers.
Thalyssra wiped the glistening sweat from her forehead with a white towel, standing on tiptoe for fear of treading on the seedlings that had just sprouted. "Why didn't Elisande come back?"
"The Grand Archmage went to Azsuna."
"Oh, what did she want to tell me?" Thalyssra remembered that Rowan had replenished Elisande's