Zephyrinus smiles before remembering to kiss back.

Back in the Wanderer's wielder's suite in the tower, Ilek casts a Time spell to check how late it is. 

"They still busy?" He asks Wanderer. 

"...I don't think so. They're not talking right now, but they're not making any other sounds, either. I think they're done!" 

 "Great," he says, blandly. "Can you tell them Jaim and I should be leaving soon?"

"Alright!"

Back in the baths, Wanderer interrupts Jaim and Zephyrinus with the sound of someone clearing their throat. 

"Sorry to interrupt," they say, "But Ilek told me it's time for him and Jaim to leave." 

Jaim pulls away from Zephyrinus. 

...Right. Wanderer can hear everything that happens in the City. 

You get used to the idea that peoples' Artefacts might be watching everything they see. Nomad watched him with Dasil a few times. He still goes a bit red at the knowledge that Wanderer heard everything that just happened. 

"...Right, the reinforcements." He looks up at Zephyrinus, "You'll be staying down here, you said?"

"Yeah. I should try contacting my brothers and it takes a long while. Also, going to disclose the Wanderer about my secret."

"Right. Yes," he shakes himself a bit, running a hand through his hair. "Will you be returning to the fort at some point or will we need to come back down here?" He pauses, "Will you be able to reach the surface of the lake without an air bubble spell? I don't think you have a large enough pool yet to cast it yourself, or I would teach you."

He fixes Jaim's hair. "I should be able to yeah. I will probably resurface to get food, but if you come down before I do could you bring some?"

He smiles at him for the hair-fixing. "Yes, I think I could manage that..." He trails off, considering how he'd do it. Air bubbles with a shell of ice to move them, maybe? There's no spell for it which he knows, but it shouldn't be too hard or dangerous to make a free-cast alteration to the air bubble spell for the short trip down to the City. 

Shaking his thoughts away, he leans up to kiss Zephyrinus once more, and then pulls away to look for his wings and shirt. 

Zephyrinus gives a final smile and goes away. Presumably to talk to the Wanderer in private.

"If we are too close to Jaim, can you damp the sounds, Wanderer? Also, can I have your promise that you're going to treat this as a serious secret?"

"I can do that. The sound dampening, and the secret. Being able to keep secrets is important for someone with abilities like mine - and you're my wielder." 

He nods than remembering that the Wanderer is blind. "I understand. My secret is that I am even more immortal than I previously said. My power works such that if one of me or my twin dies the other would emerge out of them. The problem is that I am supposed to have one twin. When we were still babies, someone experimented with our abilities. And this result in a third. My brother Theocritus."

"While we do know what would happen in normal circumstances, the fact that Theocritus means we are not sure. It's possible that I would come back from the dead, or that two of me would be generated. Or two people that only have half of my self somehow. Or maybe every time one of us dies we duplicate to exponentially ridiculous numbers. We don't know. And that does not even cover the possibility that being in another world means it doesn't work."

"We are powerful, and obviously ambitious, so even back home we keep this thing a secret because even being possibly immortals would mean more people might want to deal with us sooner rather than later. Or find ways around like mind-control, torture or just keep us alive and unable to act."

The air swirls around him lightly, keeping sound in while he talks. 

 "Yes, that seems like an important secret," Wanderer agrees seriously. "...I'm very glad it should be hard for you to truly die, though," they add, voice subdued. They give him another light airhug. 

"Thank you. You're a sweetheart. So, well, this is the situation. If it looks like I died or something suspicious happened to me, you can tell Jaim. It's just not good policy to spread this sort of secret. I am partially telling you because of the bond, there might be a chance it won't break when I away."

"I'll tell him if that happens then," Wanderer agrees. 

"Bonds are connections between physical mana cores," they continue after a moment, "So I think - I think if your body dies we might need to rebond? But we should have the same level of compatibility as we did before the bond broke." 

"Oh," Nod. "Still worthy telling you." Sigh. "Politics." He says like it's the worst of curses words.

"They're so annoying! No one ever tried anything too stupid in my City, since I automatically hear everything. I have to actively turn the runes off in a place if I want to not hear what's happening there. My wielders were part of the Mage Council, though, so I had to deal with some of it." 

"My sympathies. Anyway, I am going to contact my brothers, which involves me changing into another form and then rebinding my powers in that form to communicate a message. Which is very slow, so I might need a good while to communicate something as complex as all of this."

"Alright. Would you mind doing that closer to my pedestal?" They ask hopefully. "Where our bond is more substantial?" So they can feel his emotions, and vice versa. 

"Oh, of course. I will get back in a minute."

After a minute he is in his Aestes shape and with his artifact wings, ready to get back to the pedestal.

Jaim is waiting for him at the edge of the terrace. He's as dressed as he can be, given the lack of pants, and also bewinged, the Nomad replaced on his back. He smiles up at Zephyrinus, "Shall we?" 

"We shall!" Zephyrinus says taking flight.

Jaim rises into the air as well, and then they can make their way back up to the tower.