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.
Yes, and now he's their problem. They cannot begin to apologise for this, it is a great shame and they will be conducting a very thorough investigation to ensure he has not corrupted others.
They should check for other potential victims! And Naoh, the boy that was with him, is he alright?
They go check up on him and yep, he's mostly fine, why, what's up?
Well, besides the part where he was essentially under the care of Jintes the kidnapping metamancer, there is the fact that Naoh wasn't adapting that well from being transplanted away from his family even if the court is lovely. At minimum the only people he knew here didn't talk to him for a couple of days without a reason.
Oh right.
Well. There's no good reason for him to stay around, is there? Especially with that second sorcery book.
...is there a very good reason for Felix and Kaede to stay around, either? Since their portal closed and they're not really diplomats anyway.
Felix was actually thinking of a polite way to ask to leave. No offense, but this sort of experience does not make him inclined to trust their ability to keep him safe and he would rather go around the world and help people with magic.
Yeah, sure. They'll... deal with Jintes. Somehow.
Well, Felix doesn't think they need to stay a moment longer than necessary to explain things to Naoh and see if he is alright with going back.
Naoh is extremely alright with going back!!!!! And no of course not Temperance has all the goodwill they can grant her, she helped find a cursed metamancer in their midst.
"Thank the gods this is over," she says while they're flying over a particularly pretty patch of woods. "Bezana bless and protect me what a mess."
"You guys are cute," Temperance says, "aaaand I don't want to spoil the moment, but what are your plans for what to do next?"
"Not really. More realistically, we're planning on figuring out what's in the North. Oh and I took the mana Jintes was keeping in his tattoos, too."
"I figured you would, but there wouldn't be a way to make the others sure of that. And even if we had..."
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