They've left him alone in his cell.
He can't really be said to be lucid but he has very acute instincts for when there's someone and when he's alone - it's the last of his senses to depart him - and he's alone.
And then suddenly he isn't.
The alternative is waiting until some of the other mages are good enough, shouldn't be that much longer.
I still don't want people in my woods without me, there's too many ways that could go wrong. So I'm going to have to spend some time on it sometime.
I'm thinking I'll ask Tyelkormo if they want to go with me - we'll be faster that way. Should be fine otherwise, though, thanks.
Yep.
So, the next day: Hey Tyelkormo, how do you feel about checking out a new world?
Thought you'd say that. It's mine, there's some people I want to see if we can get more spell forms from. Where should I meet you?
And momentarily she is too, and then they're deep in an unfamiliar forest. Welcome to my world.
She chuckles. Yeah. It seems like my world is about the same as yours, but some of the plants are different and you don't get giant animals - I can point stuff out as we go, if you'd like. We'll also need to watch out for traps - probably won't be a big deal, I bet you'll notice the tigerfolks' ones just fine if there are any, and elf ones are subtler but I can get you out of those, they don't work on me.
We have giant animals! Just different ones. He sends a dinosaur. Why don't Elf traps work on you?
I mean we have like, moose - memory - and then giant moose - another memory, this time of an animal that stands rather taller than an elephant. And giant bugs and stuff. She sends a memory of a jumping spider the size of a housecat.
And elf traps are magic, so my antimagic means they don't react to me and I can just roll them up so you can step off if you get caught in one. They're not dangerous unless something finds you while you're stuck or you're still there when the elves come back to check.
Okay.
And they walk through the forest. On his own he'd be absurdly fast, and as it stands he mostly-patiently keeps pace with her.
She points out things for a little while, and then when she starts to run out of things to point out: Wanna just carry me?
So then they can move at a run! It's so much fun! He can leap things and feel alive!
Wheeeee! Wow he's fast.
Probably a good idea to start being careful about leaving tracks, soon, she says after a few hours.
Thanks. We're probably still safe, but you really can't be too careful with elves.
They're kind of awful? They're really dangerous if you provoke them and it's hard to tell what might; we know some things, but it's like 'don't cut down trees', not anything that makes sense. And they tried to wipe out all the kobolds in the forest a few decades ago and we're still recovering from that, so I really don't want to take any risks with them.