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Drowning gets almost samey after long enough.
She floats limply under the lid of the tank, airless and aching and weak and everything but thirsty, and her wings are under too and can't breathe for her, and she drifts from minute to minute without bothering to open her eyes.
"Off I go in search of the soon to be former Emperor, then. See you soon."
Sunbeam hops off the bed and walks out of the room.
...thank you. For - helping. I could do all this by myself but I am very glad I don't have to.
"I think we should get back in the boat and find an appropriate mountaintop while she looks for my father," he says.
He gets in the boat likewise.
Blink, they're high over the city, level with the surrounding peaks - blink, they're on one of them - blink, they're on a slightly lower one a little to the south, and can no longer see any signs of civilization in any direction. Just rocky slopes and beautiful trees, and a glimpse of a gilded river.
"This will do."
They're beautiful mountains. If this was Fairyland they'd be a famous landmark.
Monument has that face on again.
(He has realized that when Ruava finds his father she is going to contrive to get him alone. There are only so many ways to do that, and she is probably going to use the obvious one.)
Promise hasn't realized any such thing. Promise is drawing the pretty mountains, striking even for Fairyland - she's heard that the nature bits of the mortal world are very drab but this is somewhere else so it stands to reason it's pretty.
It is good that Promise has things she can enjoy.
If he was - more okay - he thinks he might try to tell her about the history of the Godscrest Mountains, but he really can't spare the energy for anything unnecessary right now. Perhaps another time. They have forever.
So. He should focus on the things that are not unnecessary, like figuring out how to prevent his father from accidentally or deliberately revealing his name to Promise.
It seems like the only viable means of preventing it is to ask Promise to use orders. Of course, the real danger of Promise learning his name is that she might try to use him for something, and if she has plans in that direction then asking her nicely not to learn his name won't actually help anything. But she seems both too ethical and too practical to try something like that, and Ruava evidently agrees. And he is not so carefree lately that he can afford an extra source of stress.
"If I give you my father's name, can you prevent him from telling you mine? Will you?"
"When Sunbeam calls me to fetch my father it's likely that I will have to go very abruptly," he mentions. "So if I vanish without explanation, that is almost certainly why."
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