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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
"Yes. You just had to drop a building on me, then make a clock. I definitely didn't see it coming."
come_midnight
"But there's a fountain in Panhar that says I couldn't have dropped the building on you."
come_midnight
"Thank you." Beat. "Topics. Uh. I'm worried I will lull you to sleep if I sing a song but that's all that's coming into my head right now."
come_midnight
"Yeah, you seem to be - relevantly injured. It's good you can talk, I don't know what I'd be doing trying to make sure you were awake if you had a broken jaw or a punctured lung or something."
come_midnight
"Because certainly in this scenario you'd be up for that, and the ceiling would have left enough clearance."
royal_obligation
"No, I would stand up and declare in mime that I was going to tapdance, and then it would move to allow room."
come_midnight
"Ah, I see. Certainly if the roof were inclined to disobey your direct orders it would have joined the protestors while they were here instead of collapsing afterwards."
come_midnight
"I wonder if it was an assassin. If there was a brief yet violent earthquake that would explain why no one's gotten to this pile of rubble in particular yet. But it didn't feel like that, I suppose."
come_midnight
"Which we will. You will stay awake, I will fix your head, you can heal everything else, and we will walk right out of here."
come_midnight
"They're not in any physical danger because they're at the fountain - even if it collapses further they'll be fine. We walk out, we clear away the rubble ourselves by hand if we have to. We could blow two more of my spells wall-walking them, but the odds are very good that someone won't be happy to see us, out there."
come_midnight
"Could be handy. Although I won't recognize the eyeshine colors of anyone in particular, will you?"