"Thank you!"

He carefully packs the books that she just finished casting preservation-spells on into a satchel for her, and holds it out. "You can Gate over if you wish! I confess I have never seen a freestanding Gate cast with my own eyes and I am very curious!" 

"I'll collect my friend and Gate home and you can watch if you want!"

"I would like that very much!"

She goes to collect Skan where he's resting outside.

Bounce bounce. "Are you done? Did you learn thingss?" 

"I'm done, I learned things, I'm going to Gate home."

"- Oh, all right." Skan looks a little disappointed. 

"- I mean, you can fly me if you want but I thought you were tired?"

He is tired. The trouble is that he's also very competitive. Skan rustles his wings and isn't sure what to say. 

She pets him. "The priest wanted to see a Gate, he hasn't before."

Bounce. "Oh, you sshould sshow him!" Skan loves it when Azabel, who is the SMARTEST, has a chance to show off! 

"Okay, ready to cross it when it's up?" And when Skan's ready to go across and the priest is watching, Aza makes a Gate on the door to the temple.

He oohs and aahs and is very suitably impressed! 

Skan crosses with her, still bouncing proudly. 

And then they are at her house and she takes it down.

"Sso! Can you tell me what you learned on your not-ssecret misssion?" 

"Sure!" She flips through her notes and summarizes the contents for him.

"Huh! I think I like thisss god better." 

"Yeah, they sound kind of neat."

"I bet the oness that Ma'ar went to go assk about won't be ass cool!" 

"Maybe not, we'll see. I have one more to check but it's not as far."

"Are you going to enchant their bookss for free too?" 

"Probably, it doesn't take very long and it's useful for goodwill."

Skan bobs up and down. Azabel is VERY useful to know because she's the SMARTEST.