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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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"Yeah," agrees Edarial. He heads off to explain to someone in charge what's going on, manages it in record time, and then returns and leads Iobel to a very centered sort of place inside a market.
"This should do fine, don't you think?" He points at a spot that is out of the way of main traffic, but still easily noticeable and easy to get to.
"This should do fine, don't you think?" He points at a spot that is out of the way of main traffic, but still easily noticeable and easy to get to.
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"Sure," says Iobel, already charging. "Now I guess we see how long this takes."
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He nods. "Yeah. It'll probably be a long one, honestly. Considering."
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"Mm-hm." She sits, legs crossed, and transfers Cricket to her lap for tummy rubs.
"This will be very good for very obvious reasons," purrs Cricket.
"This will be very good for very obvious reasons," purrs Cricket.
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Edarial looks at Cricket, looking like there is a thing he would like to ask - but he doesn't. He sits, near enough to Iobel but not next to her. Then he pets Berathyme, gently.
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Sitting.
Then, Berathyme says in Cricket's language, "You have acknowledged that this is good but have not acknowledged who is responsible. Why?"
Then, Berathyme says in Cricket's language, "You have acknowledged that this is good but have not acknowledged who is responsible. Why?"
Cricket yawns, and says, "I also did not point out who allowed it to be so useful that there be more than one fountain to go to. Perhaps I would not have commented at all if I did not very much remember being stolen out of my Iobel's arms sick to the point of death because there was only -"
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"Please," adds Edarial.
"... Very well," agrees Berathyme. "For you, binder."
Edarial sighs and gives her a pat.
"... Very well," agrees Berathyme. "For you, binder."
Edarial sighs and gives her a pat.
Cricket sniffs and flicks his tail. He grumbles when Iobel quits rubbing his tummy but doesn't produce further conversation, just rolls over in her lap.
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Berathyme doesn't address Cricket, though she slithers down from Edarial's shoulders to peer at Iobel.
"You dislike me talking to your familiar. Why is that?" she asks, in Marlese.
"You dislike me talking to your familiar. Why is that?" she asks, in Marlese.
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"It makes him worse, and I'm not the only person who has to listen to him anymore."
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"I think that he is too quick to judge, and I would like to know why he chooses to do so in the way that he does," says Berathyme, flicking her tongue. "Though you need not be embarrassed of him. He is your familiar, he does not speak for you, though you are connected."
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"He's done it as long as I can remember. I'm not sure if there really is a why, I've tried asking."
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"If he does not know why he does what he does, then perhaps he needs to learn to reconsider," says the familiar.
"He doesn't have to change who he is," sighs Edarial.
"No, he does not. But as he is now, he is stagnating, stuck in obstinate ways that are founded by miscommunication and blame. It is not a way of life that is healthy."
"He doesn't have to change who he is," sighs Edarial.
"No, he does not. But as he is now, he is stagnating, stuck in obstinate ways that are founded by miscommunication and blame. It is not a way of life that is healthy."
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"I don't know what standard of health you're referring to," remarks Iobel, scritching Cricket behind the ears.
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"Mental," declares Berathyme. "Though social, as well. It has already caused strife, and you spend a lot of your time associated with him keeping him quiet or preventing inquiries."
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"Previously he didn't have a social life. I'd allow him more adjustment period even if I hadn't anticipated specific problems. And I assure you he's sane, and he seems to be exactly who he wants to be."
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"I see. Thank you, for the clarification," says Berathyme, sincerely, and she returns to Edarial's shoulders.
Edarial looks at Iobel and gives a little shrug. Some things he can't stop.
Edarial looks at Iobel and gives a little shrug. Some things he can't stop.
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Edarial isn't feeling talkative anymore, so he'll just sit and wait for Iobel to finish charging. Thinking idly about how to make an item-based teleportation hex work.
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"I bet," says Iobel, "that if proper portal pairs were impossible, you could still make a teleportation spell take you to a specific object, that might not even have to be a hex itself. A marked stone of some kind."