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.
Felix sighs. "Yeah, but at least no one else needs to get hurt from now on."
"Well," Temperance says changing the subject, "do you mind if I tag along on your trip? Because visiting the magic storm was totally in my bucket list and I never expected to do it with company."
"Hm, I wouldn't put it like that? I travel a lot and the introduction of sorcery kept me distracted for long enough that I don't have any sort of commitment. I would like to swing by my father's and my mother's houses and tell them as much I can about what is going on. At least leave a note and copies of your books. But it isn't really urgent if you want to go to the storm right away."
"Nah, we're cool. What we should do while we wait for you is try to reconstruct the portal ritual." Sigh.
"I certainly won't mind helping you figure that out."
They change course a bit more to the west to where Temperance's dad lives with his second wife.
Not being mindcontrolled feels so good. Not having control over one's actions really puts things in perspective.
They eventually reach the place where Temperance's dad lives. She goes by herself because it's always a bit awkward to be around that branch of the family and much more so when she has to impose on them.
She's back hours later looking a bit uneasy. "I think my dad knows that I am a metamancer."
"The... well, not worst part, but still worrying part is that we don't actually have to worry about him. What happened is that I told them the story we are telling people and then he pulled me aside to talk privately and told me in a certain way that he would help me with anything I needed help with. It was rather unnerving."
"Technically not a problem. I don't think any of my siblings is inclined to have bodies to hide, but it is not particularly nice to know my father would help digging."
"Should we worry about leaving a book with him or is he just an enabler?"
"Enabler, I don't think there's any harm in leaving him a copy and his wife was totally thrilled by the concept of printing presses so it is likely to get distributed."
"We might want to drop more copies of them with the other two kingdoms, just to make sure, and maybe in the West."
"Sure! Felix can do some tourism along the way and reverse-engineering portals can be done wherever."
Galatea: is a continent. Slightly bigger than Africa. They do have stupidly huge amounts of mana but burning it all off in ridiculously fast trips is—
—well, not gonna happen, really, flying is actually pretty cheap, relatively speaking. They can fly stupidly fast.
And they go slow for sight-seeing! Skip the boring and enjoy the good parts.
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