She sets that up. Being able to do magic while cuddling: also excellent.

He is suitably impressed and tries working out how the spell form would go from his own version.

She is pretty content to let him figure it out on his own, but will help if he seems stuck - the curls in particular are a lot easier to figure out how to do if you've figured out the polka dots first, so she shows him that.

And he adds some new patterns - light sparkling like it does when it reflects off water - and tweaks them.

Oh, pretty.

What we're probably going to want to do is use kind of plain patterns for common magic, so it isn't too distracting, and then use fancier ones for things it's important to notice - I haven't had a chance to see how the detection form handles your world's magic yet, so I don't know what exactly, but about like that. Probably the curls for my world's magic and the backlit glow effect for most of yours, since it's easy to notice magic things that're far away with that one.

Maybe something to notice Maiar. If that can be done.

Seems likely. I'll ask if I can have a look at Huan next time I'm with Tyelkormo. It's definitely possible to notice them with the sense, at least.

Then it should be possible to have a spell to point them out. Which would be good, they can go intangible.

Hm.

The sense makes them easy to notice because their minds are so different, but if that's the only difference, it's not a useful one - my kind of magic can only detect things about peoples' minds if it's cast on them. But if they're intangible - regular spells can notice the presence of minds, even if they can't notice anything about them - a spell on the inside of your walls, maybe, so maiar can't go through? If they can even be teleported when they're intangible, which, I have no idea. A spell like that should at least be able to warn you, though, unless they can fly or something to bypass it.

They can probably fly, but it's still better than nothing.

Mmhmm.

I wonder if we can figure out how to safely put up a roof. With portals on the underside so you can still see the sky.

I really don't think it'd be possible to have a roof over a city. We could have a whole city underground but there'd still be gates.

Yeah - I can make things hover, it's just not a good idea to be under them if there's any chance of the spells being broken. Underground sounds good, better than being out in the open when you have enemies who can fly.

Could we build a cave with teleportation magic, or should we be looking for existing ones?

...I could, actually, build a cave with teleportation magic. It'd take a while to make one city-sized, though - less if you know ahead of time where you want the buildings to be, maybe, I can just leave the stone for them there - I think I'll need to try it somewhere to see how fast I can go, before I can say whether it'll be practical or not. And we'll need someplace to put all the extra stone.

Okay. It might be worth trying, and if the stone came here we could use it to build this city in the meantime.

Mmhmm. Tomorrow, maybe.

Squeeze. Yeah.

Hug. I'll be okay, just maybe not quite that fast.

...wonder how Maitimo's doing...

Do you want to check? I doubt it''ll bother him if it takes you a long time to get back -

Yeah, I'm going to at least spend the night. But I do want to check- and she scoots off his lap and then there's a portal and then she leans on him again and looks.

He's stopped trembling and curled up in a ball and is not moving.

Yeah, definitely spending the night. Next couple days, maybe. Sigh.

Okay. Not your fault.

Mmhmm.

If I'm going to be here I should find someplace to - be - let you get back to stuff. She deactivates the portal.