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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
royal_obligation
"Heh. Then I can find out what all the fuss is about."
His voice kind of trails off, a little, at the end, softening.
His voice kind of trails off, a little, at the end, softening.
royal_obligation
"Words, right," he mumbles. "Okay, uh - which words? All of them? I don't have a dictionary..."
come_midnight
"Those words will suffice. Just enough to convince me you aren't drifting off. Cricket says I talk in my sleep, but I don't make intelligible sentences, and I don't think most people even do that much."
royal_obligation
"You sound... like you don't believe me. That's ridiculous, I'm a terrible liar. The absolute worst."
come_midnight
"Well, I don't think you'd be saying it if you weren't concussed, which isn't quite the same thing."
royal_obligation
"Because - I'm starting to feel like I've gone mad. Or like I've lost my filter, I'm not sure which. Both? It could be both."
come_midnight
"It could. You did hit your head. You just need to stay awake until midnight and it'll be okay and hopefully you will restrain your violent impulses."
come_midnight
"Then we'll come up with something else. We've been here - it feels like such a long time -" She checks. "I still can't charge, though."
royal_obligation
"Wish there was a way to tell the time. Then we could get a countdown set up when it's about to reach midnight." He makes a little jazz-hands motion with his other hand - jostling the fracture. " - Ow, fuck. Bad idea."
come_midnight
"I know a hex to make clocks, I used to stock them, but obviously that would be a poor choice after midnight and intractable before."