"Fair. What exactly does the storms do? Or is it just perpetually storming?"

"Perpetually storming, plus the magical scrying thing."

"Any way to tell if the magical scrying thing is something that could happen on purpose?"

"It could definitely happen on purpose, it's possible to prevent scrying, but it's usually a mana limitation: the more mana you pour into your scrying block, the more mana someone trying to scry into it will need to spend. And no one's been able to scry beyond the storm no matter how much mana they poured."

"Ah, similar thing with sorcery. Albeit different lifeforce aspects perform better... Now I am wondering if the magical storm could be the cause of magery, are there more mages born it's vicinity or something?"

"Its vicinity is open sea so not really. And the distribution is statistically random."

"Ah, I should look at a map of Galatea at some point. And I guess an open sea would contribute to metamancers not squinting the thing out of existence."

"If we at all can, yeah. Which I suspect we can, given I can even see otherworldly magic. And I actually do have a map." She reaches for her backpack again.

In that case, Felix looks over the map, memorizing any important landmarks.

It's a continent more or less the size of Africa, there are several landmarks, most of which are too small to be marked on the map. The Three Kingdoms are delineated, as is the northern mountain range and the even more northern desert and the even more more northern giant storm.

And when you remember their low population number and what happens with metamancers that go public. "I can see how that storm got to stay there this entire time. Your world is really crippling itself with the metamagic prejudice."

"That it is, yes," she sighs. "But I can't even speak up about it."

Felix puts an arm around her and hugs her. "We will fix it."

"We will."

Soon they're done eating and tuck in for the night.

And Felix doesn't need as much sleep as Kaede, but he needs more cuddling.

He has standing permission for cuddles.

Then he will help himself to a lot of cuddles.

And she will eventually fall asleep.

And Felix holds onto her and occupies his mind with lifeforce exercises and eventually falls asleep too.

He wakes up fairly early the next morning.

Felix wakes up. He half-expects some moment of confusion where he will think he woke up next to Katur... but no. That doesn't happen. Felix snuggles up to Kaede.

"Good morning, love. I need to cast a spell."

"Sure. Do you need me to unsnuggle?" He will do so as soon as she says yes.

"Nope. Just wait a tad—" And he starts describing in plain language and lots of detail how his body's going to change to accommodate his new internal body map.

Felix listens quietly.