Of course Boots cannot write back.

Yeah. 

He makes progress on the necklace.

Eventually one of Aya's letters mentions that there's been some hasty law-revision regarding the blessing-of-Aelare de-tattooing clause, won't work anymore, options now amount to theft or purchase, she's leaning "theft of newly enslaved persons" because that's bottlenecked at certain legal offices, and purchase of preexisting slaves, followed up by theft if anyone won't sell, but it will be important to not be suspected of thievery while operating as purchasers.

He writes back. Word probably got out that he was involved in that blessing event, so he is probably not a good person to do the purchasing?

Yeah. It is known that she was there too and wasn't with the main clump, but once she's got the necklace she can pretend to be embroidered invisible, and then they can start selling tech. Probably best to start out picking one tech thing that is easy to use without knowing it's not magical and pretend to have a thing she got in the magic that churns them out; prompts the fewest questions. Once slavery in Eseo is handled they can afford to be more conspicuously outlandish.

Flashlights are easy to use without knowing they're not magical, though even good modern batteries will only last a few - how long are local years exactly -

Ballpark of Earth-length years. It's amazing how common that is, almost as if someone tried having worlds with markedly different unEarthly calendars interact one time and then regretted it for years.

It's not weirder than the fact Ardas almost always have a Bell fall on them through completely different kinds of magical accidents.

He finishes the necklace. He comes out of acceleration with a headache and vertigo, like always. He bounces around happily anyways.

Here is Aya eating the breakfast he made her. "Hi!"

"Hi! You have an eidetic memory necklace now. Wow, I really admire my alt, he spent the better part of thirty subjective years in speedup inventing these."

"Wow."

"Loki spent even longer inventing the teleport to save the world. It was kind of a war that rewarded lots of isolated engineering in speedup. Satisfying when they won, though, and Loki probably likes her me best of all the Bells except Boots and that makes me happy."

Nod. "I considered reading the spells in advance since the memory's retroactive and it would work that way, but I figured it'd be easier to notice if my eyes skipped over something because they're boring and nonsensical if I did it while I already had the necklace."

"Yeah. And we're not in much hurry, are we? I mean, slavery is super evil, but not 'a few hours makes all the difference' evil."

"Right, that too."

And he sends her the symbols!

"Thanks!"

And she sets about reading the spells.

And he is still too dizzy for flying to be usual amounts of fun so he naps, instead.

There's a lot of spells, she's still chewing through them when he wakes.

There are. They just go on and on, it's very boring. He feels well enough to fly now; he teleports over the ocean and does that.

The ocean is so oceanic.

It's pretty! And soothing! He is proud of himself for being able to make an eidetic memory necklace in three weeks but it's not exactly very much fun. At least inventing an eidetic memory necklace would have involved thinking.

He flies in lazy circles for a while and then folds up his wings and dive-bombs the water and then swims until he's tired and then flies until he's dry and then goes back to their underground palace.

It's still there and still has Aya in it, but she's between spells and is now practicing illusions. "Hey there. Dinnertime?"

"Sounds good!" Hug?

Hug. "You are very huggy."