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meta_morph

The metamancer is staring at a wall.

It is not a blank or boring wall in any way. It might actually be the most interesting wall for miles around. There is a complex and slightly spiral-y carving on this wall, with words written around in a long-extinct dialect of a language that has, as far as anyone knows, never been spoken here. And yet, here it is.

This wall is not, in fact, underground, surprisingly. These ruins are in open air, with nothing much visible in any direction other than grass. Lots of that, here, grass. But no people, no other buildings, no forests, no river, no natural resources, and most importantly, absolutely no historical record that there should be anything here. The metamancer found this place by sheer luck, and returned to it after stocking up on enough magic.

The metamancer continues to stare at the wall.

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bold-and-brilliant

"Then I guess I can distract you after all."

meta_morph

"If you want to."

bold-and-brilliant

"No, I'm just suggesting it because I secretly hate breakfast," she says, and then she dissolves into giggles.

meta_morph

"But Ruava, it's part of the normal, mundane life we live! Breakfast, go out tend the field, return for lunch, do some more of that, get back for supper where grandpa tells old stories of how everything used to be better when he was young."

bold-and-brilliant

For this, Kaede must be hugged. Because she is adorable.

meta_morph

Hug! Hugs are so great!

"...I do need to pay some attention to breakfast, though."

bold-and-brilliant

"Are you sure?"

meta_morph

".........yeeeessss probably, I don't want to burn it," she decides eventually.

bold-and-brilliant

"Okay."

Then Ruava will refrain from distracting her to a greater degree than hugs and adoring looks.

meta_morph

She will grin happily and eventually have eggs to be eaten with bread and cheese.

bold-and-brilliant

Breakfast! Yay!

meta_morph

Yay!

"So, hmm."

bold-and-brilliant

"Hmm?"

meta_morph

"I'm not sure what to do on a, like, scale of hours or days. Staring at the wall for a while until I figured it out was my previous plan but now I can kinda cheat at everything. On the other hand I am really curious about this wall."

bold-and-brilliant

"You can stare at the wall, we can try to figure out our magic?" she suggests.

meta_morph

"Sounds good. You'll tell me what you figure out, later?"

bold-and-brilliant

"Of course. You too?"

meta_morph

"Mmhm."

So she starts putting her stuff away and decides to put clothes on because sitting naked on the grass is not super comfortable.

bold-and-brilliant

Well. That's very reasonable of her. Ruava puts some clothes on too.

Then she goes over to sit by the river and play with light and water. Can they do both at once? Yes, with some difficulty. It's very pretty.

meta_morph

Kaede would be delighted to see the pretty, but now she's staring pretty intently at the wall and probably getting some information from it, given how she's not giving up in boredom.

bold-and-brilliant

They can show her later, when they're better at it!

meta_morph

She can spend hours lost in this.

bold-and-brilliant