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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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come_midnight
Iobel sits up and stretches, now that she can without hurting her leg.
royal_obligation
He smiles a little. "Good, but I meant mentally, too. We did almost get randomly murdered."
come_midnight
"This is true, but until we know more I'm not sure whether I should be afraid or pitying or furious or what, so I'm not anything yet."
royal_obligation
"Fair enough. Let me know if I can help once you are something, if it's bad."
come_midnight
"If it's the afraid thing I will probably need help subduing whoever did it. Since they're probably a spellbinder and will therefore probably be full up on spells."
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."