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There are things to do, of course, besides being Aya's cuddle buddy. Prime is usually quite busy, and now is no exception. Just because he's personally out of mana, doesn't mean he's utterly useless. His plane's got mages in it, after all - and many of them owe him favors or are amenable to being paid. And they need mirrors, for communication. After longer than was strictly prudent spent comforting Aya, he bids her goodbye and goes to handle the less glamorous moments of being him. That is, talking to people, asking for favors, paying favors, persuading them to say yes, they'll use some of their precious magic stores to make mirrors.
Ironically enough, the one thing missing when he's finished is the mirrors themselves. Easy enough to fix, with Revelation. But he'll take care of it tomorrow - he's tired, and it's been a long and complicated and emotionally exhausting 'day,' even if he doesn't properly have them anymore. Sleep, and then he'll get back to dealing with it all. The mirrors, first, they're easiest, then continuing to figure out what to do about Aya.
When he wakes, he goes to talk to a demon about that. Knock, knock, calling Inferno, is Revelation in?
darkest_evening
namesthesky
"Sure. When you and Cypress have mana again. Maybe when I've had more time to be - accustomed, and can play tour guide less distractedly."
namesthesky
"And we can see if Eseo is still practicing slavery and do - something, about that, if they are, but perhaps they've phased it out of their own accord."
darkest_evening
"Yes. We are very magic, I assume that if they haven't, we can look at them sternly, I shoot lightning out of my hand, and then they will politely agree with us that yes, slavery is bad."
namesthesky
"It sounds very impressive, anyway. I'm just not sure you can gather all the people who participate in an entire nation's slave trade in one place and show off to them."
darkest_evening
"Darn. Scary flight and minor showy effects, then. Or I can steal scrolls from Max and Phix, and show off with those."
namesthesky
"If I recall correctly it's safe to overfly magics. They only reach up so far; birds flying over them don't get turned into things. So we can make passes over them to see if there's cool stuff in the middle."
namesthesky
"Yes. And I don't suppose Annie and Aldaras would add a lot to the expedition anyway. Unless Aldaras's artifact tracking extends to useful things inside magics."
darkest_evening
"That would be useful. We should find out, I've been essentially ignoring them in favor of..." He motions to Aya.
darkest_evening
"You're entirely free to quiz them," says Prime. "I can go quiz them, too, I was just - you are more important to me than they and their resources are."
namesthesky
Snuggle.
"What I mean is that probably all of the interesting information will be extracted from them whether we go ask them questions or not."
"What I mean is that probably all of the interesting information will be extracted from them whether we go ask them questions or not."
darkest_evening
Snuggle. (Goodness, those are some insistent snuggles on her part.)
"Fair. We will find out eventually, and for now there's no reason to rush."
"Fair. We will find out eventually, and for now there's no reason to rush."