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The capital is boring.
Why is the capital boring? It's the capital! It should have interesting people in it! But noo, everyone she's met so far has been an idiot. Mostly not even an entertaining idiot, just a boring idiot who thinks she should be impressed by their whatever, like, no, in order to impress her you can start by not being an idiot.
On the plus side, the party has free booze, so that's nice.
"Very much so, yes.
I'm actually sort of having a hard time imagining a scenario where you fuck up with me, even in Anlei's position I would definitely have resorted to delightful snark considerably in advance of fire."
"I probably wouldn't have tried setting you on fire until talking had conclusively failed me. I am not consequence-ambivalent enough to burn down my own house and therefore have incentive to choose solutions that involve not pissing off the millenia-old sorcerer."
He laughs.
"Yeah. I think, to her way of thinking... once she has the attention of the all-powerful sorcerer, either she can fight her way free or she can't, and if she can't then she wants him to know she's still not helpless. Well, she certainly did accomplish that."
"Yeah."
Snuggle.
"...Fia can carry this whole mountain by herself. Trivially. I told her some of what I do to my swans and she said 'sounds like fun', cheerful as can be. But I have to figure out a better version of the swan spell first, because some of the things I do to get that much pain out of someone are risky enough that I wouldn't trust them to healing water alone."
"Hard to say. Probably not years, if all I'm doing is making a new version and not fixing the one I've got - but I have to fix the one I've got, too, for Anlei..."
Hug. "You can think about spell design while cuddling, right, I'm not slowing you down?"
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