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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
darkest_evening
Well, that's quite adorable.
"Don't tell them I said that, by the way," he adds as an afterthought. "It would probably go badly."
"Don't tell them I said that, by the way," he adds as an afterthought. "It would probably go badly."
darkest_evening
"I don't know, the - 'By the way, in my giant scheme of numbers, you really don't stack up when compared to other people in my life' might be found to be insulting. I've had problems with it, but I think I'm just overthinking things now."
namesthesky
"I don't think Annie would care that some alt of her fiancé she's barely met doesn't rank her particularly highly. Even when Katydid warned everybody not to use their Adarins' numbers as a scoring system for an inter-Bell contest no one took the opportunity to wonder about other Adarins' numbers for them."
darkest_evening
"They were planning to...? Right, good for Katydid. And that's - interesting. I won't worry about it, then."
namesthesky
"Apparently Rain told her it would be a bad idea, she didn't just reiterate that it would make her feel bad."
darkest_evening
"It still - functions, it's just very thoroughly broken when it comes to Annie, and that breaks other things, too. It looks like he's used to it, anyway."
namesthesky
"It's okay. I'd get more useful information out of Annie anyway, probably. Bells are non-numerical."
darkest_evening
"Yes. And similarly, I think I got more useful information out of Aldaras than I would have gotten from Annie."
darkest_evening
"Too is an obvious answer," clarifies Prime. "We would never go outside. Instead of you, though, I have no idea."
namesthesky
Aya makes a little noise that neither agrees nor disagrees, and squirms again, and puts her face on his shoulder and sighs.