"They're not here any more, they're back in the spirit world, so not being able to won't tell me much but I guess being able to would tell me something..."

"I think champions are summonable, at least temporarily, with the spring? So you could check the cost of summoning and then doing things to them, maybe?"

"Were there any spirits you... liked. From meeting them there. I don't think I got off on a great foot with the one that swallowed you or the one that terrorized downtown even if they were not in control of those situations."

"Hrm, I liked my champion from when I was a summoner but it wouldn't have memories from being alive... also maybe my memories about it are missing things, I guess."

"What do you remember about it?"

"It could talk in my head and knew a lot about how to fight because it had had so many wielders. It was also very skeptical of me being a good fighter at first because I wasn't a man, but it changed its mind eventually. It was very focused on honor too... It was very different from me on lots of little things, but we ended up agreeing on all the big important things."

"But there's nobody you met in person in the spirit world who you'd have the slightest interest in seeing again?"

"Hrm, I guess there was a very curious frog that would probably enjoy seeing Earth? Oh, also a dude with horns named... Nfolnir or something like that, who I sparred with."

"...no ex-humans? I would honestly have expected a preponderance of legends to be about humans..."

"Nfolnir was ex-human.. I'm pretty sure that's not actually his name."

"Why'd he have horns?"

"I think he was called Nfolnir the Bull-Headed when he was alive, and that effected how he looked as a spirit."

How much to summon Nfolnir, Spring?

Three days.

Ugh. Can it tell her without actually summoning him how much it would be to let him remember being human Nfolnir.

It can't do that, either, because he would need to be here, or because it's incapable of doing it even if he were. It's not saying which.

"Nearly half a rez to bring him here and it can't give me a price on putting his memories back in place without him present."

Sigh.

Indeed sigh.

Lucian spends quite a lot of time at the library, where he discovers computers and works his way through Computer Use for Dummies, using his allowance from May to buy himself a laptop and a second cellphone separate from the one May gave him. He'll have to walk rather than use the bus sometimes in order to afford them without asking May for more money than she was giving him for food, but that's fine. One of the librarians is also nice enough to help him acquire a state ID when he looks into transportation options.

After a week he lets Lianelle know that he's finding the city stifling and is going to go and take some time to himself, camping in the countryside for a few days, so he won't be contactable.

He want company? Lianelle could ask May if she wants to go camping again for a bit.

No, he'll be fine.

Okay.

The next day he boards a flight to Austria.