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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.
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royal_obligation
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."
come_midnight
"Maybe. I don't know what it means to have a bird. I could see it visually though."
royal_obligation
Another nod, not that she can see it. "I wish there was a way to find out without actually getting one, I'm curious now."
come_midnight
"I'd say the alethiometer, but it can't tell us anything about things that aren't there and if we went there - well."
come_midnight
"I'm certain it's much too complicated to duplicate as a hex, alas."
royal_obligation
"It would have been so useful, too," he agrees. "An objective truth teller!"
come_midnight
"And if we were designing it from scratch we could have made it better at numbers and times and proper nouns, too."
come_midnight
"It sounded like it really frustrates Isabella to work around it but she's afraid to try taking it apart and attaching it to a different interface."
royal_obligation
"Yeah. Maybe they'll make progress, they are both immortal, after all. They've got time."
come_midnight
"I've never tried to keep someone with a head injury awake before. I don't know what else to talk about."
come_midnight
"Incidentally, I'm taking into account that you have a head injury and won't be firmly relying on anything you say until I've fixed it. Although it could be a conversation piece for later regardless."
royal_obligation
"Fair," he agrees. "I'm - not sure how the head injury's affecting me."
come_midnight
"Well, you can look at it in retrospect when midnight rolls around."
royal_obligation
"Exciting." Pause. "I hope I'm less whiny when I no longer have a head injury..."