A good point, he agrees. I will stay with you when you do it.

He's so good.

I think not right now. Tomorrow. After sunset, maybe. Or after breakfast, if the wait will bother you.

Not at all, he denies, In your own time. There is plenty to do today - even if you don't wish to do anything with mana as of yet. 

Yeah. I'll see how I feel about it when I wake up. For now I should check on DZ and the prince. She goes to knock on Ilek's door.

It opens. 

"Deskyl," he greets quietly. "Okay? DZ went down to the scribing office," he adds. 

I'm all right. Are you?

"Me? I'm fine." He\s not the one who has to deal with unexpected changes to his body. He was just worried. 

He glances back into the room, noting the pre-dawn light visible outside his window. "It's still very early, but the kitchens will be running by now, if you want to go down to get something to eat." 

I was going to get a couple more hours of sleep. You should probably rest, too.

"Yeah," he glances towards Maol's room, "You're right." He steps out of his room, "Back to yours?"

Yeah.

Back to Deskyl's room they go, and from there to sleep. 

Ilek wakes first later that morning. He takes a moment to blink the sleep from his eyes and then cranes his neck around to face the window, careful not to disturb Deskyl too much while he tries to judge the time.

Deskyl doesn't wake right away.

It looks like they got maybe three more hours after their early morning wake up. That's a bit later than he usually wakes, though not nearly as late as yesterday. 

He looks around the room, while he's checking, wondering if DZ had gotten back at some point.

She's not here. He probably didn't get a good enough look at her workspace after the interruption to know whether anything has been moved.

Not really no.

Hm. He's kind of hungry, but he doesn't want to wake her. 

It can wait a bit. He settles back down to doze for a while longer. 

It's another half hour before she stirs; the first thing she does when she wakes is touch the place on her chest where the mana core lies. I'm okay, she sends to Stormsinger.

Affection, the sensation of a hug, I am glad. He examines her core for a moment, It seems to be perhaps a few pins larger than it was earlier. I would theorize that it will grow at a slower rate during the day, however, aside from any time spent meditating on it.

Ilek, meanwhile, is stirred out of his doze by her movement.

"Morning," he murmurs quietly. 

Morning. Everything okay?

"Yeah. Sleep okay? After earlier..."

Yeah. She looks around. Where's my robot?

"She went down to the scribing office last night, I'm not sure where she is now..."

She's in the room down the hall, Stormsinger offers, along with his sense of her unique electric aura, With the young Imperial girl you spoke with and released yesterday, I would assume.

She squeezes Ilek's hand. She's up the hall with my ex-prisoner. We should check on them, it's strange that she's not here.