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Iobel gets up fairly early. There's a large table full of work from yesterday available, and she thinks Edarial sleeps later than she does - so Adarin probably does too, and so even if Isabella's awake, she can't visit without disturbing her.
She orders two people's worth of breakfast - hot cereal with fruit, fried eggs, buttery toast, on a hexed platter to keep it warm, the palace is practically lousy with expensive hexes - and nibbles slowly on her half while she goes over yesterday's notes and what still remains to be done.
She has drafted a letter to her great-aunt (who is, after all, a countess and related to her and occasionally inclined to remember this, and may be able to help in some ways with some things - the loan of this property in the moors, these words in those ears, her recommendation on who to hire for this project) for review by her husband before she sends it, and begun to tediously pick apart some of the incoming mail full of requests and separate out the sincere from the strategic from the insane, by the time Edarial is likely to so much as wander out of his bedroom.
come_midnight
come_midnight
"You start getting rusty on the language, your spirit animal starts sleeping more and more and getting harder to see. People seem to forget about details of their spirit animals almost like they dreamed them."
come_midnight
"Yyyyes. I revisit the question occasionally and have consistently come down on the side of 'the unfortunate dependence of familiar on potential binder does not oblige the binder to take responsibility for and risks on behalf of a familiar against their will' - but yeah, it's not great."
royal_obligation
"Berathyme apparently wouldn't have minded, but - I don't think it's true of all familiars."
come_midnight
"There are some theories that they get recycled - reincarnated, except without necessarily any better chances of properly incarnating the second time - but I think this is mostly wishful thinking; I've never heard of a spirit animal claiming to remember being someone else's."
prodigal_miser
"... Try and figure out a way to help them. Or - give them a way to talk to each other, keep each other company. Something."
come_midnight
"The alethiometer won't be able to comment unless someone with a spirit animal moves to Chamomile, will it."
dark_light
"Alas, no, and it's hard to lose it as a tool for any given project, but it's not like I can't do anything without reference to it."
prodigal_miser
Adarin nods. "And I'm used to not using it much at all. Considering how a lot of what I do involves other planes."
come_midnight
"Makes sense. It would be really great if you could do something for the spirit animals. Bound familiars sometimes have problems, too, we were actually looking this morning at a letter from someone whose familiar has run away."
prodigal_miser
Wince. "That one I don't think I can magic away. Sorry. The ball's in your court, your uh - majesties."
come_midnight
"I was thinking it'd be a decent test case for familiar rights as long as the binder has authorized us to step in to begin with. But it'll have to be done carefully, we don't want to just drive mistreatment of familiars underground."
royal_obligation
Edarial nods. "It's something of a delicate situation. Your magic research is more straightforward."
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