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.
"I don't think it works that way at all. We can't remove part of the effect, it's constantly being fed by—something—and draining the magic at the edges would just make more magic be fed to them. We'd need to actively edit the magic to do that."
"Ah, alright." Sigh. "Well, how far around the coast do we want to go before risking going to the weird-lands?"
"We could just speed up the flight until the coast starts veering away from the storm? Unless this continent surrounds the planet but that's unlikely."
They accelerate, and the coast does eventually start curving North, which means the storm starts getting milder and milder until it's just clouds..
And then there's ruins.
The first one they see is the crumbled remains of what must've been an extremely tall spire. The space distortion effect in the distance makes details hard to make out, though.
"Ah, sci-fi stands for science fiction which is a literary genre that mostly deals with speculative or outright fantastical scientific advancements. There are lot of... aesthetic elements that are standard and building things taller is one."
"Ooh that sounds interesting I want to read that."
They reach the spire. It seems to have stood alone, there, not near any other ruins or anything like that.
Maybe it wasn't a city, but some sort of infrastructure thing? But again, the ancients are definitely very extravagant.
Yeah, they are. They move on.
...that ruined spire in the distance sure looks a lot like the one they just left.
"Okay, what are the odds that we are trapped or that thing just teleported...?"
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