Thanks. How's it going?

Pretty good. She snuggles up next to him. Maitimo's siblings haven't gotten much of anywhere on defending against mages, but they say I should tell them you have it anyway, I wasn't expecting that.

Maitimo's never going to tell you to keep important strategic information from his brothers, he needs them to trust him. And they can't possibly expect I'm going to go murder them all. They'll be upset but for political reasons, they won't do anything.

She nods. Okay. I'm going to do that tomorrow morning, then. How've things been here?

They haven't had much chance to change. No signs of danger.

Good. Any news from the scouts?

He sends an updated map of the area.

She considers it and suggests changing a couple of spells around to better cover the area.

Can do, though I'm really not afraid orcs will sneak up on us, not now that we're established here. Still, if it's no trouble - 

It really isn't.

And any news about your potential city location?

Area still seems safe-ish. There are locals. They are not thrilled at the idea of getting neighbors but haven't said no.

Nod. If there's anything I can do to help with that, let me know.

I certainly would, thanks.

Good.

Have you had a chance to work with the magic yet?

Yep. Practiced about eight hours - he demonstrates - full time and then tried practicing while doing other things, that was a little trickier.

Yeah. You'll eventually get to the point where you can use the sense as a sense, and even hear with it and see a little bit, but it takes a lot of practice.

That's all right. We can afford the time now that we're safer.

Mmhmm. Snuggly kobold. Next step for me is figuring out a magic vision spell I like - or one that'll work for everyone, rather, since we'll want to be able to share what we see over osanwë and have it make sense to each other. It's traditional for mages to make their own magic vision spells, though, as the first spell they cast on themselves, to show that they can safely do that - are you going to want to keep that tradition?

Do you think it's a good tradition?

I think having the first spell you cast on a person be on yourself is a good one, it helps make sure people take it seriously enough. Doesn't have to be that particular spell, though.

Okay. We'll do it the traditional way, then, unless that interferes with designing a good sense spell.

It might, it depends on how easy it is to share spell designs over osanwë - without that, I expect that every mage will end up coming up with a unique magic detection spell, and it'll be hard to share what we see with them. I bet we can share spell designs, though.

It seems like we should be able to. Can you send a teleportation spell design, or would it not mean anything to me without the form?

You might get the form that way. But - she sends a simple light spell design; it goes fine.

Yep, works.