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Max heads home, writes up everything he remembers from the trip to the moon with Cam and Adana, and then when his girlfriend gets home, he presents it to her happily.
"Also," he adds, once she's been updated. "The portal hub in Pantheon got a ton of renovations, I think we're calling it the Belfry now. It's very cute."
castmyown
onthewind
"You know how the spellbinders have this thing about needing to fit an entire spell in their heads?"
onthewind
"Patch, no, I'm - most of the magic we're working with is intellect or working memory based. Theirs especially, at least when inventing spells. So I want to figure out how to make an item that helps with working memory and speed of thought. Seems like it would benefit just about all of us, and it would speed up anything I want to do after that considerably."
onthewind
That's okay, Idania wasn't expecting an answer. She'll just be floating, over there. Judging.
ask_nicely
Adana - looks at Idania with a bit of a concerned look. Then she looks at Cam. "Hey, sweetie. Do you have some free time to talk about - things?"
ask_nicely
And, off they go, away from the dragon.
"He realizes," says Adana, when they are far enough away, "Just how thoroughly he's lost, and will act accordingly, but he's kind of - super racist and does not seem to view either Phix or Max as people."
"He realizes," says Adana, when they are far enough away, "Just how thoroughly he's lost, and will act accordingly, but he's kind of - super racist and does not seem to view either Phix or Max as people."
from_scratch
"It would be a little after-school special if he just blinked and was like, 'what, you mean sphinxes and their friends are people too? Gosh!'," Cam points out. "Abject surrender is probably a best case scenario."
ask_nicely
"I know, but it's still very frustrating. I told him about the alts part, to try and get him to - start seeing sphinxes and their friends as people, and that didn't get anywhere. Not even the part where I told him I was an alt of the 'peryton assassin.'"
from_scratch
"I suppose we could arrange for him to need to summon a sphinx to help him save large quantities of people in a way that leaves him at her mercy and - oh, wait."
ask_nicely
"So," coughs Adana, when she realizes she is making a lovey face at him. "He - wants to just go home and not bother Phix again."
ask_nicely
"... I trust him to keep to it while he thinks he has lost, but the minute that he thinks there's a chance he could win and kill all of the sphinxes, I think he'd take it."