Temperance composes a letter to send home explaining the concept of a printing press and then goes to sleep. She wakes up early and starts doing magic research on her own. Comparing what she knows and what the book tells her. She has a late lunch and then remembers to actually send her letter.
That done she sits in the library and proceeds with her research. She ate enough at lunch that she decides to skip dinner and wait for Kaede while reading.
It's the sort of noise made by a heavy stone object being dragged on a stone floor.
"What—?"
The sound stops. Kaede walks over to the wall where it seemed it was coming from and presses his ear against it.
What happens if she casts something that lets her sense what is on the other side? Lets try seeing through things first.
Rock and dirt.
Regular dirt, no magic at all.
"Okay, I am not going to let that movie cliche happen." Felix follows her.
As does Kaede.
The sweltering heat hits them like the Fist of Laoku. They can see clearly for several miles, but just over there is a huge stone monolith standing still at the end of tracks in the sand that seem to imply it's somehow been dragged there.
"I wouldn't think so, most of them are fairly harmless and extremely puzzling. I'm—curious, but not enough to want to investigate right now."
"Fair enough. ...Any problem if we do something like we mark this one with something so we can identify it later?"
"Alright." From a distance, Felix marks it with a "Cool S" symbol, because he is feeling like making obscure references. Does the thing explode?
After sunset, sure!
And then they fly and fly and fly and wow that is very strong wind and those sure are some clouds in the distance over the ocean.
Well, they are getting closer. Temperance is watching out for the moment when the storm's magic becomes detectable.
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