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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
"That's another two spells down. We'd only have a handful left between us. If there's more than one conspirator I'd like more breathing room. It'd be smart if we were in the middle of nowhere with an antagonist, but this is a city and probably not everyone would want us dead. Though I still don't know why we weren't dug out."
royal_obligation
"Fair. So I do the sight spell, we see if anyone's around that looks angry and like they want our blood or something, and if so - invisibility, retrieve guards, come back and get Berathyme and Cricket?"
come_midnight
"If they aren't already dead. Does the version that doesn't do eyeshine colors show dead people?"
come_midnight
It may be just visible, by double eyeshine, that she reaches for his shoulder and then stops and puts her hand on her knee.
royal_obligation
He notices.
"... You can put your hand on my shoulder," he says, quietly. "If you want."
"... You can put your hand on my shoulder," he says, quietly. "If you want."
come_midnight
"If the guards are dead we probably can't come up with a way to cover up resurrecting them any time soon, and I don't think Isabella's infrastructure can handle the scaling that there'd be demand for if it were open."
royal_obligation
Edarial nods. "Agreed. But - I think we should let their families know if it's possible? So they don't have to worry?"
come_midnight
"Do you think they could keep quiet about it, especially if the message is 'we can get them back but we're not going to because then everyone would know'?"
royal_obligation
"... Fair point, but maybe if we worded it like - we can get them back but there's a resource cap and we need time to get that fixed before we can do it large scale?"
come_midnight
"Some people might be able to live with that - do you know these particular guards' families?"
come_midnight
"...I don't remember if it came up in front of him that Isabella can resurrect the dead."
come_midnight
"I mean, she won't do it if I tell her it would be a bad idea, but -" Her eyes dim. "There's my wall-walk. I'll charge yours." White again. "What would Zevros do, stonewalled?"
royal_obligation
"Be really angry at both of us, and Isabella, and possibly Adarin. He might leave the country entirely."
come_midnight
"But not make a massive public announcement that the queen's alternate universe doppelganger can restore the dead to life and health and we're sitting on this information for quote no reason end quote?"
come_midnight
"If he does that, that's bad. If it turns out he does already know Isabella can do that - then how do we prevent the insane run on services we can't actually provide in quantity?"