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Once he leaves the - self-help meeting, Prime goes to his list of things to do. A lot of it has to do with Perinixu's temple and the acolyte responsible for bringing the goddess here. And magic, always magic. In particular, creating a stack-able set of portals-necklaces with limited amounts of mana is a challenge Prime hasn't encountered before. Even he can't manage it, not in the time frame that he'd like it to be finished.
So, he does the obvious thing. He outsources. He's not the only mage in the world, not even close, and he just so happens to be extremely rich. He asks (well, asks and then pays) a talented stoneshaper to make the necklaces in one fell swoop, and then spends several hours bugging significantly less busy mage healers at hospitals to make the portals. He only manages to get three sets, but he deems this 'better than nothing.' Especially considering most mages don't have a strong enough bloodline to manage a portal on their own. Just three was difficult to get, and required a lot of teamwork.
With that done, he heads off to Perinixu's temple, to shower Spring with gifts. In the sense that he will hand them to her, and then ask her nicely to use them to heal people.
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darkest_evening
darkest_evening
"Fine, since you're so insistent, you can talk about Rossier, I liked him."
sequoiadendron
"Eeeeee!" Pause. "Okay now I really don't know what to say, though. It's not like you and he got all dramatic like you and Lorina did -"
darkest_evening
Prime pinches the bridge of his nose.
"No, it's all an elaborate hoax with smoke and mirrors, I am secretly a hand puppet."
"No, it's all an elaborate hoax with smoke and mirrors, I am secretly a hand puppet."
darkest_evening
He sighs. Obviously if he doesn't explain it, his sister will, and - he does not want that to happen.
"Rossier was bothered by needing to keep our relationship secret, he told me of his grievances and we parted reasonably amiably when there were no solutions to the problem that didn't involve upsetting various mages. Lorina," says Prime, carefully, "decided that after a decade of dating that it was a good idea to try and force the issue of marriage. By trying to impregnate herself with my child. Without my permission."
"Rossier was bothered by needing to keep our relationship secret, he told me of his grievances and we parted reasonably amiably when there were no solutions to the problem that didn't involve upsetting various mages. Lorina," says Prime, carefully, "decided that after a decade of dating that it was a good idea to try and force the issue of marriage. By trying to impregnate herself with my child. Without my permission."
darkest_evening
"That," says Prime whimsically, "was the face I made when I found out."
darkest_evening
"Yup. There were other problems with the relationship before that point, she was especially bothered by my constant sarcasm, but that was definitely the tipping point."
darkest_evening
"Hmmmm," says Prime, musingly. "About a century, I'd say. She died of old age, I've tried very hard not to be smug about that fact."
dark_light
"Why would you be smug about her dying of anything whatever?"
darkest_evening
"Oh, the entire thing was brought about by her getting upset because she aged and I did not."