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Etty catalogues and indexes the library of magic.
Since she has not had luck finding Astgabels or anyone who can direct her to it by flying in slightly different directions each day and asking random people, she stops trying, and instead tries to come up with ways to rejigger the available divination spells into producing a compass direction for her to follow. Or maybe she can come up with some variant on the food-generation spell that would be practical for a long trip, and bring Nona with her, and then they could be gone for days looking farther afield than she can get in half a day's flight.
Eventually she finds a spell that is not exactly right, but might be close enough, and she shows it to Nona.
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This does not really help. Etty is herself rather chilly right now, and doesn't seem to notice.
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"...If I have an aura of cold, is that going to be a problem?" Etty asks, pausing her channeling. "It's not supposed to be inconvenient, it shouldn't hurt you..."
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"Maybe it'll - get - snugglier? I can withdraw it for now." The cold sucks away and the room is back to normal, and so is Etty.
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"Is that exactly what you want to be doing right now?" says Nona. "It's not what I want to be doing right now."
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Kisses!
It is somewhat later when Etty makes it out of the room to find Glass and get checked out.
It is somewhat later when Etty makes it out of the room to find Glass and get checked out.
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Predictably enough, Glass diagnoses her with an aura of cold. "It's developed enough now that it should behave itself with people you're close to, though, and shouldn't actually harm anyone you don't want to hurt. I'm not sure what this other part does - I'm getting better at interpretations but still... It looks like a cross between Aurora and Kerron, so I guess it's something like detecting other people's intentions? Are you getting anything like that - let it out?"
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Etty lets her aura out. (Humidity crystallizes around her; frost gathers on her skin and snowflakes adorn her hair and eyelashes, and in the white feather dress she looks like some kind of ice-spirit.) "...Yeah. Kind of - I can't tell exactly what either of you want, but I can tell that you aren't set up to be in my way?"
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Giggle-hug.
"...What happens if you put it away?" she wonders. "Or if I go away from you - will we still be all icy?"
"...What happens if you put it away?" she wonders. "Or if I go away from you - will we still be all icy?"
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Etty withdraws her aura. The frost disappears in a burst of mist. She puts it back; frost draws itself back on both of them. She takes a step back. Nona's melts; Etty's stays.