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She doesn't recognise that tree.
She's been here before, she's not that far from the estate, this isn't some unknown place. She must've taken a wrong turn, of course, but where? She should probably just try to retrace her steps, Jaol will be incredibly mad at her...
"Your wood-sense might be able to provide a more accurate map of the interior than my memory could, though."
"Yeah. It doesn't do non-living materials well, but I'd be honestly surprised if there aren't at least weeds and moss most places. It'd be nice if I could get an idea of how distorted the space is, too."
"Same. Especially since if it does work, and if I can get the wood-traveling jutsu working, you'll be able to have backup easily if something goes catastrophically wrong."
He puts the back of his hand on his forehead, closes his eyes, and looks as if he's about to fall.
"My love, you shall not want for protection as long as I draw breath," she says gravely, with the air of a quote.
Kiss! "Love you too. So much. When we've fixed my world we can go see all the melodramatic romances."
The secretary gruffly informs him there's a position open, as a low-level calculator for the astronomers. He'll have to show them he knows his arithmetic, of course. The directions to get there are as so; he's to introduce himself to Koltherna.
The castle's pretty easy to get lost in. The passages are the servants', and they're windy and often narrow. Luckily people are pretty generous about directions if he does get lost.
The destination is a long hall, dominated in the middle by a massive mechanical contraption, which looks as if an orrery had been repurposed to show arcane concepts rather than planets. Various maps dominate the walls. A decent number of desks are lined up in the wings of the hall, and a woman sits at a larger desk near the entrance - probably the person he was told to talk to.
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