royal_obligation
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.
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
"No, that sounds fine," he agrees, and then he starts charging. "You first, your leg?"
come_midnight
"You're much worse off than me, you may have internal bleeding and who knows what else, you first. I have had broken legs before."
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"... Okay," Edarial agrees, sounding like he does not want to agree with it but not finding fault in her logic.
come_midnight
"More of the same, basically," Iobel assures him. "Unfortunately you didn't produce any useful ideas for what to get you for your birthday."
royal_obligation
"You were rather sentimental," says Berathyme. "Also more jovial, but I doubt you would find that embarrassing."
"... No," he pronounces. "Apparently it's fine, then?"
"... No," he pronounces. "Apparently it's fine, then?"
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"Oh."
His eyes are glowing, so - she has light to see him look sad. "Yeah - that... I can understand."
royal_obligation
The spell goes off, and then Edarial is healed. He immediately starts charging again.
"Also... Jovial?"
"Also... Jovial?"
come_midnight
"You were good company, actually. Except for the drifting out of consciousness part, that was scary."
come_midnight
"Yes, you could have just kept counting to fifty the entire time and I would have been bored and that would have been undoubtedly the worst part of the situation."