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Prime wakes up a day later, takes care of some business that includes checking up on how Cypress's ghost is being treated, making sure ex-demon hunters are not killing anyone, having a brief chat with his father and a hug, and other general administrative and personal affairs. Then, brief meal, and back to sleep.
It's uneventful. Cypress and Ice go to several more restaurants (most of which are pretty, in interesting and unique ways) and return to Prime's home to snuggle and - forget about the events that'll transpire when they get home. Cypress misses Vernaia, he tolerates her being away from him but just gone entirely is - it obviously bothers him. He'd suggest going the way of Prime and spending the next day in sleep, but he can't ask it of his wife. He snuggles her, instead, and they distract each other from the things that are obviously wrong.
Then, completely predictably, Prime wakes up. He checks his mana stores. He gets notes from Cypress and casts the language spell, since it's cheap.
"Ready," he informs, when he has recovered enough from three days of near non-stop sleep to be reasonably awake and functional. He has a spot picked out for the portal, already. He does a bit of writing in his own book of cheat sheets, and then the empty wall by the front door gets - what looks like a painting. Specifically, a painting of the other side of the portal - Pantheon. It looks like a painting, too, not like a photograph. If someone looks closely, they can see what looks to be brush strokes, and little hints of mess here and there.
He touches the portal, murmurs "Pantheon" and then it shifts. To something more - real, lifelike. Like you could step through it to the other side.
"Done. After you?"
darkest_evening
darkest_evening
"Thank you," says an amused Prime, staff in hand. It's got a glass orb on one end of it - but otherwise is rather unassuming, if well taken care of.
darkest_evening
"That's a clock - it's impossible to tell the time by the sky, for obvious reasons. I'll have to tweak it so it tells Kystle time, now, too, but I haven't gotten around to it yet."
onthewind
"... Can I kidnap you and make you make me cool magic things? Because man do I want cool magic things."
namesthesky
"I imagine you're difficult to kidnap. Anyway. Where should I try putting the holy water? Actually first -" Aya speaks into her holy water vial around her neck. "Perinixu, I'm in New Kystle now. Can you still hear me?"
darkest_evening
"Well, would you like a place that is out of the way so no one will ask strange questions with a portal to a portal hub, or just be by the portal hub from the start?"
"While I am still gaining a foothold, I would like for it to be out of the way. I will need room to grow, if transportation is not an issue."
darkest_evening
"Certainly, give me a few minutes, I'll find something."
And then he gets a far-off look in his eyes.
And then he gets a far-off look in his eyes.
onthewind
No response from Prime. Idania gets bored quickly and floats off to investigate the clock some more.
darkest_evening
"Of course," he agrees, and then he pauses and crooks a finger. Two glass - things come flying at him, and he catches them. "First, to prevent you from being locked outside of my house - keys. Let's not have you need to break in to get home."
