The villagers are adamant. The soldiers inform you that you lack the authority to make such matters.
You can either let the suspect burn and return to 44, or draw your weapon and declare that you will not allow someone to be killed on mere suspicion without evidence in 245.
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An anecdote to pass the time:
The “magicians” are very careful to differentiate themselves from the “sorcerers”. While the former are scholars studying the strange matter-teleportation system that is the “Web”, those they call “sorcerers”, on the contrary, use all possible and imaginable means to increase their powers, with little scientific rigor and a touch of charlatanism.