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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.
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come_midnight
come_midnight
"Well, this is just going to work out beautifully, isn't it," says Iobel before Cricket can reply. "Kitty, why don't you go - bother the cooks for cream. You remember how to say 'cream'? It's cream -" She repeats the word a few times as she puts Cricket out of the guest room and then closes the door.
royal_obligation
"That was awfully confrontational of you," says Edarial, in her language.
"Was it?" muses the familiar. "I hadn't noticed." She curls back up, around his shoulders, to go back to napping.
"Sorry," apologizes Edarial.
"Was it?" muses the familiar. "I hadn't noticed." She curls back up, around his shoulders, to go back to napping.
"Sorry," apologizes Edarial.
come_midnight
"I suppose some familiars are going to be a bit more predictable than others in how they'll cope with being able to talk to more than one person."
royal_obligation
"Apparently so. She's always nice to me," sighs Edarial. "And she's not particularly vocal about disliking others."
come_midnight
"Well, if Cricket's the only one she's at particular odds with I suppose that's as good as could be expected."
royal_obligation
"Hello," says Berathyme agreeably. "Were you worried about what your familiar would say?"
royal_obligation
Berathyme laughs a very... Snakey laugh. "I would not have been offended."
"She is extremely hard to offend," explains Edarial.
"She is extremely hard to offend," explains Edarial.
royal_obligation
"It is entirely up to you whether you shoo him or not," says Berathyme, noncommittally. "I don't think I care either way."
Edarial snorts.
Edarial snorts.
come_midnight
"It's lovely. Pity I don't think I can duplicate it for use by spellbinders."
prodigal_miser
Adarin snickers. "I'd show you my notes on it, but I don't think it would be very useful."
come_midnight
"What sort of notes do you produce in the course of inventing spells? We wind up with huge - charts, with if-then sequences and so on, on enormous paper. It's possible we could still crib some of your work for some of your spells even if not all of them."
prodigal_miser
"Mine... Don't quite work like that. I would describe my magic as tricking reality, and my notes are on what's necessary to keep it fooled. But you can read my notes, if you like."
He produces the book of cheat sheets, turns it to the right page, and offers it to her.
He produces the book of cheat sheets, turns it to the right page, and offers it to her.
come_midnight
Iobel reads, blinking as the unfamiliar alphabet reveals its secrets to her.
"This is - not directly adaptable because there's too much reference to things a spellchart would have to break down into component parts, but the format is sort of promising if you have spells that don't refer to things like languages that spellbinders can't take as givens."
"This is - not directly adaptable because there's too much reference to things a spellchart would have to break down into component parts, but the format is sort of promising if you have spells that don't refer to things like languages that spellbinders can't take as givens."
prodigal_miser
"I think I might have a few, yeah. I'm not sure how useful some of them would be, they're pretty basic, though."
come_midnight
"We might not take the same things as basic. Isabella showed up still needing the anti-clumsy spell I invented," Iobel points out.
prodigal_miser
"True. How useful's a spell to heat things up or cool them down?"
prodigal_miser
"That one I can tweak depending on the casting, I've got the notes for it, here." He retrieves the book, flips to the right page, and shows her.
The basic concept is the same, but it can be resized based on what the caster wants to do. Adarin's version, anyway.
The basic concept is the same, but it can be resized based on what the caster wants to do. Adarin's version, anyway.
come_midnight
"I don't think this unfolds into a meaningful improvement on what we've got," she says. "It's interesting anyway though..." She starts paging through the rest of the book, then stops: "Is everything in here okay to look at?"