"I have an item."

" - when'd you pick it up?"

"Desna gave it to me personally the last time I talked you into casting Mending on the telescope at one of her observatories."

"Can you get another one?"

"If I see her I'll introduce you."

"Thanks. She might be vaguely acceptable, see."

"I think so! The observatories are neat."

"I've never been!"

"I'll show you sometime. - guess we could go today, there's one north of here."

"Ooh. I guess you and this carpet aren't busy till a scry hits paydirt."

"We're really not."

"I wanted to do some reading," grumbles Mahdi, but he turns the carpet around to go north instead.

"Do you get motion sick if you read on the carpet?"

"The books get a little bit of sand in them. Not too noticeable for something like this but we did a trip out to Mekshir once and when I got back they wouldn't close quite right anymore."

"It won't shake out? Or prestidigitate?"

"You can do it page by page."

"I guess that'd be annoying. Whatcha reading, anything good?"

He brightens. "Kareteret's Spell Alteration."

"Ooh, what kindsa spell alterations -"

"Extending range and extending effect duration. They're conceptually kind of similar." He gesticulates as he begins to explain this and Hagan, annoyed, switches laps to Fazil's instead.

Belmarniss takes notes on the book report.

And eventually they will approach a lonely lighthouse with a rundown observatory beside it on the cliff.

"Did one of the telescopes really need Mending? Why didn't a cleric of Desna handle it if it's her observatory?"

"Oh, most of them are in various states of disrepair. Desna doesn't so much have an organized church."

"I guess if it's abandoned."