"...Alright then."

"They haven't, however, strictly told us this is to remain secret, per se. Which is a loophole we can exploit."

"Do you know what was the official story with Naoh? I assume that they didn't just take him away without at least saying where he was going to his family?"

"No, but I'm not sure what the exact excuse was. Something about serving his Queen and helping the people."

"That is both better and worse than what I was imagining."

"Oh?"

"On the positive side, there is already a generic excuse in place that doesn't cast a negative light on Naoh. On the negative side, I grew up in a democracy and that is the sort of power that is alarming to hear from someone in power."

"Yeah they can do pretty much whatever, held in check only by the two other kingdoms and His Eminence."

"Yeah. But it would be hypocritical of me to complain further."

"Hypocritical?"

"Taking over the world isn't very democratic."

He laughs. "I suppose it isn't. But we're not taking over the world, we're merely founding a country."

"Metaphorically taking over," Felix shrugs.

Grin.

"But back on subject, I'm pretty sure the best way to help Naoh is obviating the need for him to be kept here." Pause. "Say, would it be a lot more work to write two different versions of this book?"

"Different in what way?"

"Not obviously by the same author. Maybe the kind of thing that would be written by someone who was figuring stuff out, elsewhere, completely unconnected to us."

"Not impossible... but then who would've written it? A metamancer who managed to reverse engineer it? I can't see how your magic system- oh. I might have an idea."

"Oh?"

"This isn't likely, but in theory someone could develop a sorcery gift that allows them to analyze and reverse-engineer sorcery rituals by themselves. We could say that it was what happened. The fictional author could be someone that got into an accident and came out with a sorcery-analysis power and with notes that follow that narrative."

He grins and kisses Felix. "That's a wonderful idea! And when it's done, well, I am nigh-omnipotent, I'm sure I can disappear for the night and drop this book somewhere rather far away where the news will take long enough to reach us that no one will be able to do anything about it."

Felix kisses back. "Thank you. I try. How different should the two versions be? Do you think you could give insights of what a sorcery-analysis power should figure out faster or differently?"

"I'm not sure how a sorcery-analysis power would do it, but honestly they don't know it either, it could go whichever way."

"We could pick based on what we want the general public to know? The High Consul will invariably get a copy so they will either have equal or greater knowledge."

"It doesn't really matter what the government knows, if the people know enough to use then it can't be used as an extra advantage."

Nod. In that case they should go back to work on both books?