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After Adarin and Isabella depart, Edarial gets back to juggling projects. Unsurprisingly, Iobel is a large help in this. Once she gets a handle on all of the things involved with being a monarch, he can not constantly be doing that alone. He still helps, he's still there doing monarch things and fixing the country, but now he's got a bit more free time to devote to other things.
Accordingly, there's a project he picks back up that he was only tinkering with before his marriage. He'd like to reinvent the fountain that heals familiars, have there be others in strategic locations, so that spellbinders don't need to rush to the capitol to avoid being unmade. Progress on the project's always been slow, there's a reason that it hasn't just been reinvented immediately after the spell charts were lost, but he's got some very good reasons to work on it with a near-obsessive zeal.
One day, to his utter surprise, when he goes to find another portion of the spell-chart to complete, he can't find it. He stares at the chart, stunned. Then he starts checking his work. It takes him a few days to finish the corrections.
Then he's done. He's remade a revolutionary spell chart.
He picks up the huge spell chart, does his best to fold it down to a reasonable travel size, and then heads off to show the nearest spell binder - Iobel.
royal_obligation
come_midnight
"Yes, but I can haul myself over there and back, it's not so far. I've broken my legs before. Have I mentioned I really needed that anti-clumsiness spell I invented?"
come_midnight
"I'm going to take that as a yes. Besides, I've been talking too, I'm thirsty."
Her fingertips disengage from his shoulder, she tells Cricket to get off her, and she half-crawls half-drags herself to the fountain, still bubbling away.
She drinks some, and then she cups her hands and fills them up and then goes back with more use of her elbows and starts carefully feeling around for where his mouth is.
Her fingertips disengage from his shoulder, she tells Cricket to get off her, and she half-crawls half-drags herself to the fountain, still bubbling away.
She drinks some, and then she cups her hands and fills them up and then goes back with more use of her elbows and starts carefully feeling around for where his mouth is.
royal_obligation
Edarial hesitates, but then he takes her hand - he can find it, it's on his shoulder - to hold.
royal_obligation
Yup. Handholding. Also counting, wonderful counting.
After a while the numbers get a little mumbled.
After a while the numbers get a little mumbled.
come_midnight
"Counting's hardly the most fascinating thing in the world. What'll hold your attention, c'mon."
come_midnight
"Um, any other charts you've been picking at for a while on the side? Read any good books lately? If you had one of those soul animals what do you think you'd get?"
royal_obligation
"Mm - haven't had time for other charts. There are some projects I haven't picked back up, but I will again. Good books - lately, no. I have no idea what soul animal I'd get - what do you think you'd get?"
come_midnight
"I don't know. Maybe just the same thing as Path is, but maybe not. Isabella was talking about how he had to be a bird because she's a witch, and I'm not a witch."
royal_obligation
"I think I'd have to know more about how they work to get a good guess. Otherwise - I'd just go with what Adarin has."
come_midnight
"Apparently there are lots of stereotypes and such about them but we didn't grow up there and if we did we wouldn't need to guess."