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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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Iobel stays where she is, watching to see if he skips a number or anything.
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He does not skip any numbers. Sometimes when the numbers get large, though, he seems to get annoyed with how long they take to say and he starts over from one, again.
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Eventually he gets annoyed with counting entirely and tries conversation again.
"Why do you care?" he sighs, quietly.
"Why do you care?" he sighs, quietly.
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"Mhmm. You'd do fine as a solo monarch. 've seen you, you're good at it."
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"You didn't like that plan one bit when you weren't concussed and it wasn't pitched as involving your death, so."
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"You'd do great," assures Edarial. "Jus' the learning curve. And you're just about past that..."
come_midnight
"Right, except I don't need to, because you're going to stay awake, midnight is going to come, I am going to heal you, and we are going to dig our way out of this mess even if no one is coming to help."
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He finishes that, repeats it again, and then moves on to naming cities in Marlatia.
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And then, when he runs out of cities (he didn't get them all, but it's rather understandable why) - he tries conversation again.
"Why do you care?" Pause. "About me - in particular."
"Why do you care?" Pause. "About me - in particular."
come_midnight
"Oh, there are several I could distribute quite sincerely, I'm just not sure what you're looking for in particular."
come_midnight
"Why I care if you die? I don't want anyone to die and I don't know if you could be fetched back the way you are now, if you want the generic reason. For the practical - well, when you aren't concussed, you think the country needs you at the helm and I'm inclined to defer to your judgment on that, not that I wouldn't try alone if I had to. And if you want personal reasons that gets back into the compliment-fishing."