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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
She does. This will mean mismatched handwriting, but that shouldn't get in the way.
royal_obligation
Both handwritings are legible, so there will not be an issue.
Soon enough, it's all copied down. Edarial looks kind of like he wants to hug her, but he restrains himself. He's not sure she'd want him to hug her. Instead he just smiles at her, then heads off to go fetch someone to make further copies.
Soon enough, it's all copied down. Edarial looks kind of like he wants to hug her, but he restrains himself. He's not sure she'd want him to hug her. Instead he just smiles at her, then heads off to go fetch someone to make further copies.
come_midnight
Iobel's not fast enough to react to the looking-like-he-wants-to-hug-her before he's left the room. She wasn't sure how to react anyway.
She goes to get packed for a day trip.
She goes to get packed for a day trip.
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A person to copy the spellcharts is fetched, and then Edarial starts packing, too. He's ready reasonably quickly.
"Ready to go?" he asks, brightly, obviously still excited.
"Ready to go?" he asks, brightly, obviously still excited.
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Similarly, Berathyme is curled around his shoulders.
Some guards are fetched to escort them. Zevros decline to come, he is... busy.... with a recent boyfriend of his. Edarial blushes a bit when he realizes what they're busy doing, but doesn't comment. The royal monarchs and their escort pile onto a boat to travel by canal to Panhar, first.
Edarial continues to be excited. "Do you think we might be able to manage a fountain that heals people, too?" he asks Iobel, on the way there.
Some guards are fetched to escort them. Zevros decline to come, he is... busy.... with a recent boyfriend of his. Edarial blushes a bit when he realizes what they're busy doing, but doesn't comment. The royal monarchs and their escort pile onto a boat to travel by canal to Panhar, first.
Edarial continues to be excited. "Do you think we might be able to manage a fountain that heals people, too?" he asks Iobel, on the way there.
come_midnight
"It would be harder, because of how much you'd have to expand the section about what healed means. Familiars are easy because they have a clear state of perfect health right when they're bound - they don't need to be any other physical age or ever have congenital problems. It might be that you could do it, since there are healing spells that work fine on people, but it would definitely be harder."
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He nods. "I'll give it a shot, a lot of what was in the spellchart for familiars could be reused, though. It's the sort of thing that is harder but worth trying. For obvious reasons."
come_midnight
"You might have to make a couple different fountains for diseases and injuries. But it doesn't sound necessarily harder than the immortality hex I had in mind, which I'm still planning to work on even with Isabella's spells. Since there are plenty of binders to use it."
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"Makes sense. It's a good idea, I like how our magic's scaleable. Let me know how that goes, I'll let you know how mine goes?"
come_midnight
"Sure. I'm doing the teleportation first, though. Isabella's spell did adjust my priorities a little."
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"Of course," he agrees, smiling. "That would be extremely helpful for scaling the fountain - easier to get the spellcharts to places far away that they need to get to."
come_midnight
"Mm-hm. And emergency communications, and evacuations - I'm hoping to keep the section that allows a small number of passengers!"
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Edarial nods. "That would be great! Though it might be smart to make two versions of the spell - one for passengers and one without, to hopefully cut down on charge time. In case of an emergency where it's just you in danger."
come_midnight
"Yeah. I'll probably make lots if versions of the full ideal version doesn't have a decent charge time, really."
royal_obligation
"Good plan. There might be a way to make a hex that does teleportation, but that seems like it would be a nightmare to try to accomplish."
come_midnight
"It might be possible to do something like Adarin's portals, in two hex-sized steps, I think."
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Edarial nods. "Which would be extremely useful. I'll look into making those, as an alternative to teleportation, or an addition."
come_midnight
"If they were permanent it would scale better, certainly. For freight too."
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"Agreed!" He pauses. "Now I'm all excited and I kind of want to fling myself at some spellcharts to start doing that."
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"Just a bit," he agrees. "Not to mention I don't have any blank ones with me right now."
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Boat! And then city! What a world that they live in!
"We'll find a nice place to put it - do you want to make the hex, or should I?"
"We'll find a nice place to put it - do you want to make the hex, or should I?"
come_midnight
"I can do this first one if you'll find someone to explain what I'm doing - you're more recognizable as something other than some random binder."